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Miriam C. Wiesner
Miriam C. Wiesner
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Miriam C. Wiesner

Miriam C. Wiesner is a senior security researcher at Microsoft, with over 15 years of experience in IT and IT security. She has held various positions, including administrator/system engineer, software developer, premier field engineer, program manager, security consultant, and pentester. She is also a renowned creator of open source tools based in PowerShell, including EventList and JEAnalyzer. She has been invited multiple times to present the research behind her tools at many international conferences, such as Black Hat (the US, Europe, and Asia), PSConfEU, and MITRE ATT&CK workshop. Outside of work, Miriam is a dedicated wife and mother, residing with her family near Nuremberg, Germany.
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Working remotely with PowerShell

PowerShell was designed to automate administration tasks and simplify the lives of system administrators. Remote management was a part of this plan from the very beginning, as outlined by Jeffrey Snover in the Monad Manifesto from 2002: https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2011/10/01/monad-manifesto/. However, to ship version 1.0 promptly, some features, including PSRemoting, were not included until later versions. PSRemoting was officially introduced in version 2.0 and further improved in version 3.0.

It quickly became one of the most important core functionalities and nowadays supports many other functions within PowerShell, such as workflows.

While PSRemoting can work with a variety of authentication methods, the default protocol for domain authentication is Kerberos. This is the most secure and commonly used method of authentication in Active Directory environments, which is where most people using PSRemoting are likely to be operating. So, when Kerberos...

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Miriam C. Wiesner

Miriam C. Wiesner is a senior security researcher at Microsoft, with over 15 years of experience in IT and IT security. She has held various positions, including administrator/system engineer, software developer, premier field engineer, program manager, security consultant, and pentester. She is also a renowned creator of open source tools based in PowerShell, including EventList and JEAnalyzer. She has been invited multiple times to present the research behind her tools at many international conferences, such as Black Hat (the US, Europe, and Asia), PSConfEU, and MITRE ATT&CK workshop. Outside of work, Miriam is a dedicated wife and mother, residing with her family near Nuremberg, Germany.
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