Information Gathering and Vulnerability Scanning for CompTIA Pentest+
Reconnaissance is one of the most important phases in a penetration testing engagement. This course will teach you how to perform information gathering and vulnerability scanning needed for the CompTIA Pentest+ certification.
What you'll learn
With the pentest plan and scope defined, your next step it to gather information about your target as well as perform vulnerability scans to understand the potential attack vectors that can be exploited. In this course, Information Gathering and Vulnerability Scanning for CompTIA Pentest+, you’ll learn how to gather personal and technical information about your target that will be later used during the exploitation phase. First, you’ll explore how to gather technical information about your target. Next, you’ll discover how to harvest information about the employees of a company. Finally, you’ll learn how to perform vulnerability scans to identify potential vulnerabilities. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Information Gathering and Vulnerability Scanning needed for the CompTIA Pentest+ Certification (PT0-002).
Table of contents
- Understanding Information Gathering and Vulnerability Scanning 7m
- Understanding Passive and Active Information Gathering 8m
- Passive Technical Information Gathering 4m
- Searching Third-Party Sources of Information 7m
- Actively Gathering Domains/IP Addresses 3m
- Gathering Technical Information with OWASP Amass 8m
- Searching Information with Shodan and Recon-ng 7m
- Actively Gathering Port and Service Information 3m
- Interacting with a Service Using NetCat 5m
- NMap Port Scanning 9m
- Scanning Servers with NMap 9m
- Website Scrapping and Crawling 2m
- Understanding People Information Gathering 3m
- Passive People Information Gathering 3m
- Gathering People Information with theHarverster 12m
- Active People Information Gathering 2m
- Searching OSINT Information and Data Breaches with Maltego 13m
- Gathering Technical and People Information with Sn1per 9m
- The OSINT framework 6m