Overview

In today’s security landscape, reconnaissance is one of the most critical phases of penetration testing and ethical hacking. Understanding how attackers gather intelligence allows defenders and red teamers alike to build more secure environments. Mastering Web and Infrastructure Reconnaissance provides learners with the practical skills needed to collect, organize, and analyze public and internal data related to web infrastructure, technologies, people, and networks. Whether you are a cybersecurity enthusiast or a professional, this course teaches the foundational techniques attackers use—making it essential knowledge for defense and offense.

This course begins with setting up a structured recon environment using tools like Kali, Flameshot, and Metasploitable. It then explores advanced Google search tricks for uncovering sensitive web information, and dives into LinkedIn-based OSINT for identifying people, tech stacks, and office locations. Learners will perform DNS reconnaissance using tools like dig, dnsenum, and DNSDumpster, followed by network scanning with ARIN, Nmap, and Whois. Later modules focus on web service analysis with BuiltWith, Nikto, BurpSuite, and more, while deeper server and cache analysis is explored in Section Seven. The course concludes with internal reconnaissance techniques using Metasploit and Nmap within a LAN environment.

This course equips learners with comprehensive reconnaissance skills—from open-source intelligence to internal scanning—enabling detailed reporting, vulnerability discovery, and preparation for advanced penetration testing.