Recon and footprinting Course

This course introduces the concept of footprinting and reconnaissance and shows how it's used for real-world penetration testing activities.

56 minutes

Course description

This course dives into recon and footprinting activities. You will see common tools like Maltego being used to automate some of the information gathering. There are also deep dives into DNS recon and enumeration of DNS.

Syllabus

Enumerating DNS for information, part 2

Video - 00:11:00
Continuing to enumerate DNS.
Enumerating DNS for information, part 1

Video - 00:12:00
We begin with enumerating DNS.
Open-source intelligence gathering

Video - 00:15:00
A look at open-source intelligence gathering.
Introduction to passive recon

Video - 00:18:00
A look at passive recon.

Meet the author

Keatron Evans

Keatron is a highly experienced cybersecurity expert and VP of Portfolio and Product Strategy at Infosec with a wealth of expertise. Keatron is a respected author, instructor and speaker who holds numerous cybersecurity certifications and regularly contributes as a subject matter expert for major media outlets.

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