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Cybersecurity Foundation: Footprinting & Reconnaissance

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Cybersecurity Foundation: Footprinting & Reconnaissance

The First Step to Cyber Defense: Know the Unknown

updated on icon Updated on Jun, 2025

language icon Language - English

person icon Payaswini Sahu

category icon IT and Software ,Network and Security,Ethical Hacking

Lectures -22

Resources -8

Duration -2 hours

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Course Description

Are you ready to take your first steps into the world of cybersecurity? This course, Cybersecurity Foundations: Footprinting and Reconnaissance, is designed for aspiring security professionals, ethical hackers, and tech enthusiasts who want to learn the art of information gathering and how attackers think.

You’ll start with a strong introduction to cybersecurity, exploring the critical concepts of footprinting and reconnaissance—key phases in any penetration testing or ethical hacking process. By understanding these techniques, you’ll learn how to map out vulnerabilities, gather valuable information, and lay the groundwork for effective cyber defenses.

What You’ll Learn

Fundamentals of cybersecurity and its role in today’s digital landscape.
Footprinting techniques to gather publicly available information.
Tools and techniques for passive and active reconnaissance.
How to make use of tools such as Google Dorks, WHOIS and other tools/ websites for info gathering
Identifying vulnerabilities and their analysis to prevent systems from getting hacked.


This course unites hands-on insights along with practical techniques to create a solid footprinting and reconnaissance foundation. Be a step closer to master the world of cybersecurity as the defender of tomorrow's digital world!

Goals

You will be able to understand, by the end of this course, that there are many importance about reconnaissance and footprinting in cybersecurity, having the tools and techniques needed to identify the weaknesses in the target, being able to develop a good cybersecurity mindset to defend the systems and networks efficiently, and the foundation you will get here will solidify the learning of further cybersecurity and ethical hacking concepts.
Be equipped with the tools and techniques on how to identify weaknesses in a target.
Develop a mind for cybersecurity defense of systems and networks.
Build foundation for advanced concepts in cybersecurity and ethical hacking.

Prerequisites

  • Basic understanding of computers and networking concepts.
  • A desire to learn cybersecurity fundamentals.
  • No prior knowledge of hacking or coding is required.
Cybersecurity Foundation: Footprinting & Reconnaissance

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Introduction to Ethical Hacking

9 Lectures
  • play icon Basic terminologies in CyberSecurity and Ethical hacking 04:54 04:54
  • play icon Types of Hackers 07:36 07:36
  • play icon Phases of Hacking 05:36 05:36
  • play icon CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability 08:50 08:50
  • play icon Vulnerability assessment and Penetration testing 09:26 09:26
  • play icon Cyber Kill Chain 04:11 04:11
  • play icon Tactics Techniques and Procedures 02:53 02:53
  • play icon MITTRE and Red and Blue Team 08:21 08:21
  • play icon Information Security standards 13:37 13:37

Footprinting and Reconnaissance

13 Lectures
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Payaswini Sahu

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