What this book covers
Chapter 1, Fundamentals of Reconnaissance, introduces the reconnaissance phase in offensive security and how it helps organizations improve their cyber defenses.
Chapter 2, Setting Up a Reconnaissance Lab, focuses on setting up systems within a virtualized environment for practicing active reconnaissance techniques.
Chapter 3, Understanding Passive Reconnaissance, helps you to understand how adversaries can leverage OSINT to improve their attacks while anonymizing their identity on the internet.
Chapter 4, Domain and DNS Intelligence, teaches you how to efficiently collect and analyze domain-related information about a targeted organization to identify security vulnerabilities.
Chapter 5, Organizational Infrastructure Intelligence, focuses on collecting and analyzing publicly available data to profile an organization’s network infrastructure and its employees.
Chapter 6, Imagery, People, and Signals Intelligence, teaches you how to use reconnaissance techniques to find and locate people, organizations, and wireless network infrastructure.
Chapter 7, Working with Active Reconnaissance, focuses on discovering hosts on a network, enumerating vulnerable systems, and performing wireless reconnaissance on a targeted network.
Chapter 8, Performing Vulnerability Assessments, teaches you how to set up and perform vulnerability assessments using common tools in the industry.
Chapter 9, Delving into Website Reconnaissance, explores various tools and techniques used by adversaries to identify the attack surface on websites and domains.
Chapter 10, Implementing Recon Monitoring and Detection Systems, focuses on identifying suspicious network traffic using Wireshark and Security Onion.
