Conducting Passive Reconnaissance for CompTIA PenTest+

Course Overview
Hey everyone. My name is Dale Meredith, and I want to welcome you to my course, Conducting Passive Reconnaissance for CompTIA's PenTest+. Now you may be saying who's Dale Meredith? Well, I'm a tech guy. I've got a lot of certs behind me, Microsoft, EC-Council, CompTIA. I'm a Microsoft and cyber security trainer and consultant for my own company, My Mentored Learning, and I maintain my own security YouTube Channel called Dale Dumbs IT down. Now this particular course is a part of a series for the CompTIA PenTest+ certification program. But don't worry, I'm going to cover other information that's more real world here for you, so you get more bang for your buck. And this course is actually one of my favorites because it's about reconnaissance, and doing it passively, meaning I'm not going to get caught. And if you're not familiar with reconnaissance, you need to be because attackers spend 70 to 80% of their time gathering information about their target. This actually makes it a lot easier for them to infiltrate your network, and that's what I'm going to show you, what are the steps that they go through. We're going to first go through and learn about things like whois and using a standard nslookup. We'll even do some Google hacking. Then we'll go through and take a look at some cool tools, dude, that's going to help us automate the whole process of gathering this information, this open-source information about our target. By the end of this course, you will have all the skills and knowledge to perform your own passive reconnaissance on your own target, maybe it's your own company, but don't do that without permission. Now before you start this course, you should be somewhat familiar with basic network topologies and technologies. You should be familiar with operating systems like Windows, as well as Kali Linux, and you need to make sure that you go back and watch its requirements, for you too have seen the Laying the Foundation for Penetration Testing for CompTIA PenTest+. Now after you watch this course, you should feel comfortable in diving into other courses within this series, including how to do active reconnaissance, as well as even hacking the system, I would even go back and look at some of our ethical hacking courses as well. You can never have enough knowledge. So, I hope you'll join me on this journey learning how to think and do things like an attacker without getting caught because you're Conducting your Passive Reconnaissance for CompTIA PenTest+, here at Pluralsight.