From the course: Deep Dive into Open-Source Intelligence

Beginning your penetration test with OSINT

From the course: Deep Dive into Open-Source Intelligence

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Beginning your penetration test with OSINT

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- Have you ever Googled someone in a job interview, or used social media to learn more about who you're going to meet? These are the same skills used in investigations, ethical hacking and penetration testing to profile a target and hack into an organization. This is also an example of open-source intelligence, or OSINT. In this course, you'll get a high-level view of OSINT topics, like the differences between active and passive reconnaissance, ways of tracking organizations and employees, and tools and methods to gather OSINT. Hi, I'm Michael Wylie, a security expert with over 19 years of experience in both offensive and defensive security. So join me in this course as we take a high-level view of OSINT techniques and tools you need to be successful when effectively analyzing open-source information. Let's get started.

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