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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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Common PowerShell red team tools

Many tools have been released that are written in PowerShell that can help you with your red team engagements – too many for you to make use of every single one. In this section, we will look at some of the most well-known and helpful tools to get you started and provide you with an overview of what is out there to help.

PowerSploit

PowerSploit is a collection of PowerShell modules and scripts that can help red teamers during a penetration testing engagement. It was originally developed by Matt Graeber. It is no longer supported, but there are still many useful tools and scripts that are helpful. PowerSploit can be downloaded from GitHub: https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit.

While most functions work fine in Windows PowerShell, they don’t in PowerShell 7 and above. Some functionalities that PowerSploit made use of from .NET Framework were not ported into .NET Core, on which PowerShell 7 relies. So, when running PowerSploit...

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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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