Information Reconnaissance: Competitive Intelligence and Online Privacy
- Type:
- Skills Test and Report (STAR)
- Course:
- SEC 550 :: Information Reconnaissance: Competitive Intelligence and Online Privacy
- Target:
- Network and system security administrators, hands-on security managers, information security officers, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment personnel, any personnel responsible for the secure configuration of Internet facing systems and the protection of Intellectual Property within their organizations that need an understanding of typical security exposures that Google uncovers, how to use Google as an evaluation tool and common techniques used by Google hackers.
Power Search with Google (formerly Google Hacking & Defense) students leverage a toolkit of techniques and skills required to evaluate their sites from malicious Google Hackers. In doing so, they gain a fundamental understanding of technical defense measures to uncover unintended information disclosures, close common holes in web servers and Internet connected devices as well as clean up the exposures discovered.
- Requirements:
- One online assessment test
- Renewal:
- N/A
- Assessment test topics:
- Defense against Google Hacking
- Google Hacking Johnny Long Style
- Google on the Network
- Introduction to Google Search Techniques
- Scripting & Gooscan
- Working with Google and Other Engines to Remove Links
For more information please email star@giac.org.

