Offensive PowerShell had a watershed year in 2014. But despite the multitude of useful projects, many pentesters still struggle to integrate PowerShell into their engagements in a secure manner. The Empire project aims to solve the weaponization problem by providing a robust PowerShell post-exploitation agent built on cryptologically-secure communications and a flexible architecture. Empire implements the ability to run PowerShell agents without needing powershell.exe, rapidly deployable post-exploitation modules ranging from key loggers to Mimikatz, and adaptable communications to evade network detection, all wrapped up in a usability-focused framework. This is the post-exploitation agent you’ve been waiting for.