• Online, Self-Paced
Course Description

Having knowledge of a target's physical location can be useful for social engineering and physical security assessments. In this course, you'll explore tools and tactics used to learn a target's geographical location. Next, you'll examine how conducting Open Source Intelligence on social media sites can yield sensitive information through direct investigation or social engineering. You'll move on to learn how to utilize job posts and job boards to search out useful target info like what technologies are being used, names of legitimate users, and areas they may be weak due to lack of staffing. Finally, you'll explore the large portion of the Internet that consists of the dark and deep webs and how these mostly unseen resources can be used to discover potentially sensitive info about a target. This course is one in a series that helps to prepare you for the Certified Ethical Hacker v11 (312-50) exam.

Learning Objectives

{"recognize tactics that can be used against a geographical location of a target","identify tools that can provide details about the physical location of a target"}

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Threat Analysis
  • Vulnerability Assessment and Management

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.