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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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Privileged accounts and groups

A privileged account is an account that has more rights and privileges than a normal account and therefore needs to be cared especially for their security.

Built-in privileged accounts also exist in AD, such as the administrator account, the Guest account, the HelpAssistant account, and the krbtgt account (which is responsible for Kerberos operations).

If you want to read more about AD built-in accounts, please refer to the official documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/manage/understand-default-user-accounts.

Built-in privileged groups in AD

In AD, there are some predefined roles such as the Enterprise or Domain Administrator roles, but those are not the only ones.

Those predefined roles reside in the Builtin container of your domain. To query it you can use the Get-ADGroup cmdlet and specify the Distinguished Name (DN) of your domain-specific Builtin container as -Searchbase; using this parameter...

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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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