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Reconnaissance for Ethical Hackers

You're reading from   Reconnaissance for Ethical Hackers Focus on the starting point of data breaches and explore essential steps for successful pentesting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630639
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Glen D. Singh Glen D. Singh
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Reconnaissance and Footprinting
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Reconnaissance FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a Reconnaissance Lab 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Passive Reconnaissance 5. Chapter 4: Domain and DNS Intelligence 6. Chapter 5: Organizational Infrastructure Intelligence 7. Chapter 6: Imagery, People, and Signals Intelligence 8. Part 2: Scanning and Enumeration
9. Chapter 7: Working with Active Reconnaissance 10. Chapter 8: Performing Vulnerability Assessments 11. Chapter 9: Delving into Website Reconnaissance 12. Chapter 10: Implementing Recon Monitoring and Detection Systems 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Lab overview and technologies

Building a personal lab environment enables you to explore and improve your technical skills without the need to acquire expensive hardware or pay for a subscription service. A personal lab environment provides a lot of scalability and flexibility options such as enabling you to add and remove systems as needed based on your learning objectives and goals. For instance, by leveraging the power of virtualization technologies, you can create an entire virtual network with multiple virtual machines running on your personal computer without any hidden expenses or need for physical hardware components.

To better understand the components that are needed for our lab environment, let’s take a look at the role and function of each major component:

  • Hypervisor – The hypervisor will enable you to create virtualized environments for installing and running multiple operating systems simultaneously on top of your existing hardware on your personal...
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