July 2023
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 38m
English
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Chapter 5Reconnaissance and Intelligence Gathering
Security analysts, penetration testing professionals, vulnerability and threat analysts, and others who are tasked with understanding the security environment in which an organization operates need to know how to gather information. This process is called reconnaissance or intelligence gathering.
Information gathering is often a requirement of information security standards and laws. For example, the Payment ...