Whether you work on the blue team within your company or are hired as a red teamer to help harden a company’s defense, knowing what vulnerabilities you are broadcasting to the world is important. In this course, Information Gathering with Kali Linux, you’ll learn to run the information gathering set of tools to conduct the reconnaissance step in the cyber kill chain. First, you will explore tools for conducting DNS Analysis and host identification. Then, you’ll learn about network discovery and OSINT analysis. Finally, you will go through how to use that information to conduct a social engineering attack. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to conduct proper information gathering of assets and resources openly broadcasted to the world needed to lockdown, harden, and secure your company in today’s cyber world.
Author Name: Mike Woolard
Author Description:
Mike is an information security manager who has worked in the IT and Information Security fields for 22+ years. A broad background from helpdesk to sysadmin, system engineer, networking, DB and development work. Most of Mike’s work now centers around pentests and risk assessments, but an integral part will always be awareness training. An active member in various local security groups, Mike volunteers, speaks, or attends various information security cons.

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Introduction
  6mins
• DNS Analysis
  16mins
• OSINT Analysis
  15mins
• Conduct Social Engineering Attack
  8mins
• Live Host Identification
  9mins
• Network Discovery, Port, and Protocol Analysis
  17mins