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Writer's pictureSloane Luckiewicz

Reconnaissance: Scanning with NMAP, Vulnerability Assessment with OpenVAS

Updated: Mar 20, 2024

Lab provided by the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina Lab Overview: 

Reconnaissance is a strategy used to gain information about targets/victims before carrying out penetration testing or attacks. This type of strategy includes discovering hosts that are online, identifying running services, fingerprinting OS, and analyzing vulnerabilities to name a few. 


The goals of this lab are to:

  1. Understand the reconnaissance phase 

  2. Use NMAP to launch scans against a network/host 

  3. Perform vulnerability assessment using OpenVAS framework. 




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