How does one securely handle passwords in a custom written PowerShell cmdlet?

Question

Assume I have a custom PowerShell Cmdlet that exports data and encrypts it using a password.

[Cmdlet(VerbsData.Export, \"SampleData\")]
public class ExportSample         


        

Answer 1

If you only want to obtain the password, you can use

Read-Host cmdlet with the–asSecureString parameter.

This parameter mask the input.