In this course you will learn how to use open source information gathering tools and techniques to gather information about your clients and organization whom you are performing penetration test. we will cover different online platforms and tools.

After this course you will be confident to use such techniques to gather information about any company and person of your interest.

In todays world every thing is online, the amount of efforts that was required long time ago to gather small piece of information about target company is now available online and its just few clicks away. People love share their information online on different social media platforms and on different websites, we will see how easy it is together useful information about anything.

In this course we have covered following Topics:

Types of information gathering

Search engines

Social Media

Web Presences

Job Postings

Archival sites

Partners and Third Parties

Financial Information

Infrastructure Information

and different tools to gather other information.

Information gathering is the first step in any penetration testing process, it is very important know about your client before starting your actual penetration test. This information gathering process will help you to collect information about clients organizational units, number of employees, physical locations, type of business their web presence, financial information and mush more.

We have covered both theory and demonstrations in this course. I hope you will find this course interesting and you will get most out of it.