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Rishalin Pillay
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Rishalin Pillay

Rishalin Pillay is an Offensive Cybersecurity expert who holds a number of awards and certifications from multiple companies in the Cybersecurity industry. He is well known for his contributions to online learning courses related to Red Teaming and as the author of Learn Penetration Testing. He holds Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions made towards the Cybersecurity Industry, including the Events Speaker Gold award for influential public speaking at Tier-1 business events.
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Mohammed Abutheraa
Mohammed Abutheraa
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Mohammed Abutheraa

Mohammed Abutheraa is Cybersecurity specialist who has over 15 years of experience in IT security, risk management, security infrastructure, and technology implementation in both private and public sector environments. He worked as Incident Response and Remediation Advisor and supported customers remediating against major incidents in the last years. He has experience in Threat Intelligence and Proactive Services like Vulnerability Assessments and Red / Purple Teaming experiences.
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Scanning exercises

As you work with scanning, please keep in mind that the scanning phase is where you begin scans to find openings in the target environment based on the results of your reconnaissance phase. During this phase, you can discover the possible ways or vulnerabilities that will allow you access to the environment.

The following list of activities aims to give you a feel for using the tools. Please remember to stay ethical and don’t conduct scanning activities on any organization that would be deemed illegal.

Port scanning:

  • Try to use zenmap to do a network mapping for an environment
  • Try to perform a TCP connect scan against a specific IP to find open ports
  • Try to perform version detection using nmap -sV on a specific IP to find information about products and their versions
  • Try to perform aggressive scan detection by using -T4 on a specific IP to increase the scan speed

Vulnerability scanning:

  • Try to use OpenVAS to scan an...
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Rishalin Pillay

Rishalin Pillay is an Offensive Cybersecurity expert who holds a number of awards and certifications from multiple companies in the Cybersecurity industry. He is well known for his contributions to online learning courses related to Red Teaming and as the author of Learn Penetration Testing. He holds Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions made towards the Cybersecurity Industry, including the Events Speaker Gold award for influential public speaking at Tier-1 business events.
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Mohammed Abutheraa

Mohammed Abutheraa is Cybersecurity specialist who has over 15 years of experience in IT security, risk management, security infrastructure, and technology implementation in both private and public sector environments. He worked as Incident Response and Remediation Advisor and supported customers remediating against major incidents in the last years. He has experience in Threat Intelligence and Proactive Services like Vulnerability Assessments and Red / Purple Teaming experiences.
Read more about Mohammed Abutheraa