PowerShell - One Tool to Rule Them All

In the later months of 2006, Microsoft published the first version of PowerShell (codenamed Monad). With its introduction Windows finally got a mighty command-line interpreter and the management of systems using commands and scripts was made so much better. Still, PowerShell is still in a niche and is only rarely used. In this article, I’ll give you the basics of PowerShell, tell you what’s up with the Execution Policies and which advantages PowerShell offers to Penetration Testers.This paper was written in 2014 as part of a research project at scip AG, Switzerland. It was initially published online at https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20140417 and is available in English and German. Providing our clients with innovative research for the information technology of the future is an essential part of our company culture