Setting up C2 operations

As an aspiring penetration tester, it's vital that you learn and gain the skillset of using popular C2 tools to help you improve your penetration testing skills and strategies during a real-world exercise. Within the cybersecurity industry, Empire 4 is a post-exploitation framework that allows penetration testers and red teamers to set up C2 operations during their penetration test on an organization. Currently, a security group known as BC Security (www.bc-security.org) is maintaining a forked version of the original PowerShell Empire framework since the original developers have achieved the original PowerShell Empire project. However, BC Security has been continuously providing updates and new features that allow penetration testers to perform never-before-seen techniques during their live penetration test on their clients' networks.

Empire 4 allows penetration testers to set up an Empire server that functions as a C2 server and agents are installed...