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Course Overview

Network security is a growing issue with the number of cyber-attacks, malware, ransomware attacks, and breaches growing. Attacks can come from any number of angles (scanning, Spidering, Google dorks, social media techniques, etc.). Thus, having the ability to identify your attack surface is critical to protecting yourself and your company.  

This course will teach you how to identify various types of attacks, how they are deployed, and how they are leveraged. This information will help you in knowing how to protect against them.  

To fully understand the reconnaissance approach and defend against it, we will first learn from the position of the malicious hacker utilizing the first phase of hacking (reconnaissance) in order to gain a foothold. From there, we will flip the scenario to the defender, looking at best practices and tools that can help defend us and our networks. 

What You Will Learn

  • What is reconnaissance and why it is important
  • Tool and techniques used in reconnaissance
  • How to use reconnaissance tools to defend in different scenarios
  • How to perform a network scan
  • Understand Google hacking and social media reconnaissance

Program Curriculum

  • Disclaimer
  • What is Reconnaissance?
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Setting Up Our Virtual Environment
  • VPNs and DNS Leaks
  • Sock Puppets
  • Some Basic Linux Commands
  • Chapter 2 Lab
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • People Search Engines
  • Data Breaches
  • Password Hashes
  • Maltego: Scanning with Maltego
  • Chapter 3 Lab
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Searching Social Media
  • Internet Archive
  • Maigret: Finding Accounts with Maigret
  • Reverse Image Searches
  • Streets and Maps: Researching with Satellites
  • Chapter 4 Lab
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Glassdoor: A Deeper Look Into a Company
  • Nmap/Zenmap Scanning
  • Metagoofil: Sensitive Document Searching
  • Shodan: The Hacker’s Search Engine
  • BuiltWith
  • Spiderfoot: Spidering with Spiderfoot
  • DIG: Digging Into a Domain With DIG
  • Chapter 5 Lab
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Posting on Social Media
  • Passwords and 2FA
  • Reporting
  • Phishing
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Web Domain Lockdown
  • Firewalls
  • Policies
  • IDS/IPS
  • Auditing
  • Policies Examples
  • Chapter 7 Quiz
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Instructor

Jeff Minakata

Jeff Minakata has worked in the IT industry for over 22 years. He holds various cybersecurity certifications, networking certifications, and engineering certifications such as C|OSINT Certified, trained in CEH v8, CEH v9, CEH v11, CISP, Metasploit certified, Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE), MCSI OSINT Practitioner, and CWA certified. He is an Online Instructor for OSINT, ethical hacking, and network security. He has contracted courses for EC-Council, Udemy, and has written articles for Hackin9 and eForensics magazine. Jeff currently works on the computer networking side and teaches ethical hacking, OSINT, and cybersecurity online. He is passionate about helping people understand OSINT, ethical hacking, and cybersecurity.

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