Conducting Passive Reconnaissance for CompTIA PenTest+
by Dale Meredith
Reconnaissance is the process of discovering information about the target before you engage. Passive Reconnaissance is doing this in a matter that leaves no trace, which helps to keep your identity under the hacker hoodie you're wearing.
What you'll learn
Attackers spend 70-80 percent of their time gathering information about their target. Doing so answers tons of questions that save them time while becoming active. It only makes sense that you as a security professional do the same. In this course, Conducting Passive Reconnaissance for CompTIA PenTest+, you will learn about effective untraceable information gathering, referred to as reconnaissance. First, you will see what information can be discovered about your target using public and open source information. Next, you will discover what WHOIS, nslookup, and even Google can expose about your target. Finally, you will explore some applications that are designed to help automate this phase of reconnaissance. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of passive reconnaissance needed to conduct a penetration test.
About the author
Dale Meredith has been a Certified Ethical Hacker/Instructor EC-Council for the past 15 years, and Microsoft Certified Trainer for over 20 years. Dale also has an additional 7 years of senior IT management experience and worked as a CTO for a popular ISP provider. Dale's expertise is in explaining difficult concepts and ensuring his students have an actionable knowledge of the course material. Straddling the line of fun and function, Dale's instruction is memorable and entertaining. Dale's knowl... moreedge and understanding of current trends in technology and applications have led to many opportunities, such as: training various Inc 500 companies, universities, and Divisions of the Department of Homeland Security for the United States government.
Along with authoring for Pluralsight, consulting, and IT classroom training, you can catch Dale on stage speaking at IT conferences, helping IT teams keep their companies safe, relevant, and "breach" aware. Outside of the professional sphere, Dale spends quite a bit of his time giving back by speaking at adult and youth non-profit community gatherings and posting on his 'Dale Dumbs IT Down' social media sites. Dale uses these speaking engagements and social media sites to 'Dumb Down IT' concepts with the intent to help everyone be safe and smart with their technology and personal devices.
Dale also specializes in Active Directory, Exchange Server, IIS, PowerShell, SharePoint, System Center/Desktop Deployment, and Private Cloud