Chapter 4: Open Source Ninja

This chapter will take you, the reader, through the art of Google-Fu, researching a company, facility, process, control, contract, or other form of publicly shared information. This allows you to understand how to obtain as much information pre-engagement as possible. The important part is that time and time again, employees like to publish information about their organization. Information that is not normally shared by a company can be items such as firewalls used for segmentation, endpoint protection, network access control (NAC) information, intrusion detection system (IDS) products implemented, and many more revealing strategies. However, with a drive to be ever more connected, websites such as LinkedIn can reveal ...

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