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Dale Meredith
Dale Meredith
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Dale Meredith

Dale Meredith is an EC-Council-certified ethical hacker/instructor and a Microsoft-certified trainer. Dale has over 10 years of senior IT management experience and was a CTO for an ISP. Dale's skill as an IT trainer is in clarifying tough concepts and ensuring students understand the theory. Dale's teaching style is memorable and entertaining. His expertise has led to many opportunities, including teaching teams in Fortune 500 firms, universities globally, the Department of Homeland Security, and many US military branches. Along with authoring video courses, consulting, and classroom training, you can catch Dale on stage speaking at IT conferences around the world, helping teams keep their companies safe, relevant, and breach-aware.
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Introduction to discovery tools

Discovery tools play an invaluable role in OSINT investigations. They allow analysts to uncover hidden information from publicly available data sources that would otherwise remain concealed. OSINT specialists utilize a diverse range of discovery techniques and tools to reveal obscured details, find connections between data, and generate new leads.

There are many types of discovery tools tailored to different investigation needs. Domain and IP address analysis tools peel back the registration details and ownership history of websites and networks. Web scraping and archiving tools extract content, code, and metadata from web pages. Document analysis reveals metadata and other clues hidden within files. Data visualization techniques help illustrate connections within complex OSINT datasets.

Skilled use of discovery tools helps OSINT analysts progress from simple Google searches to excavating profound insights from publicly accessible data. Just as...

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Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837638277

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Dale Meredith

Dale Meredith is an EC-Council-certified ethical hacker/instructor and a Microsoft-certified trainer. Dale has over 10 years of senior IT management experience and was a CTO for an ISP. Dale's skill as an IT trainer is in clarifying tough concepts and ensuring students understand the theory. Dale's teaching style is memorable and entertaining. His expertise has led to many opportunities, including teaching teams in Fortune 500 firms, universities globally, the Department of Homeland Security, and many US military branches. Along with authoring video courses, consulting, and classroom training, you can catch Dale on stage speaking at IT conferences around the world, helping teams keep their companies safe, relevant, and breach-aware.
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