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Course Overview

In today's technology-driven world, businesses face an ever-increasing threat from cybersecurity breaches, with malicious PowerShell-based attacks being a significant concern. These attacks can compromise sensitive information, disrupt operations, and lead to devastating consequences for organizations.

PowerShell has become extremely popular among hackers over the years. PowerShell is important and highly useful for penetration testers and ethical hackers, and it is easy to learn and it provides access to almost to everything in the Windows systems, thus opening up a large attack surface to execute many attack possibilities.

Our "PowerShell Security Mastery" course offers the most effective solution to combat PowerShell-based cyber threats. This comprehensive course is meticulously designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to secure your systems, detect vulnerabilities, and respond proactively to potential attacks.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to perform penetration testing on Windows systems and discover vulnerabilities using PowerShell.

What You Will Learn

  • Familiarize with PowerShell fundamentals such as using the CLI
  • Cmdlets
  • Objects
  • Modules
  • Commands and Functions
  • Learn to create PowerShell Scripts
  • Familiarize with reconnaissance and scanning using PowerShell
  • Learn to perform Privilege Escalation attacks using PowerShell
  • Learn to create a PowerShell payload
  • Familiarize with Reporting and Documentation
  • Understand the best practices against PowerShell attacks

Program Curriculum

  • Welcome to PowerShell
  • Command Line Interpreter (CLI)
  • PowerShell cmdlets
  • Working with Objects
  • Modules and Functions
  • Section Summary
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Introduction to PowerShell Scripts
  • Setting up a Development Environment
  • Creating PowerShell Scripts
  • Script Documentation
  • Functions and Modules
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Gathering Information
  • Network Host and Port Discovery Scans
  • Accessing Files with Sensitive Information
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Obtaining User Credentials Using PowerShell
  • Performing Client-side Attacks Using PowerShell
  • Performing Brute-force Attacks with PowerShell
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Writing PowerShell Scripts and Web Shells for Exploitation
  • Performing Privilege Escalation Attacks Using PowerShell
  • Creating a PowerShell Payload
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Using PowerShell with Metasploit
  • The Metasploit Meterpreter
  • Performing Pass-the-Hash Attack with PowerShell
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Creating Backdoors with PowerShell
  • Lateral Movement and Persistence with PowerShell
  • PowerShell Remoting for Penetration Testing
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Reporting Findings
  • Documentation
  • Best Practices Against PowerShell Attacks
  • Section Summary
  • Chapter 8 Quiz
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Instructor

Juraj Šimunec

Juraj Šimunec is Microsoft 365 Engineer experienced with setup and administration of complete M365 platform. His main area of focus is to provide best possible experience for users, but at the same time following best security practices in tenant configuration and integration with various workloads.

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