Episode 19 — Passive Recon Fundamentals
This episode teaches you how passive reconnaissance builds a reliable starting picture of an organization’s exposure without directly interacting with target systems. You’ll learn what kinds of public information tend to be useful, including organizational structure clues, technology fingerprints from internet-facing artifacts, domain and certificate signals, and common leakage sources such as code repositories, documents, and mispublished configurations. We’ll cover how to convert passive clues into testable hypotheses, prioritize what to validate later, and document findings with appropriate confidence levels, distinguishing what is confirmed from what is inferred. You’ll practice scenario reasoning around credential exposure, inadvertent data disclosure, and third-party relationships, focusing on ethical handling and boundaries even when the information is publicly accessible. By the end, you’ll be able to use passive recon logic to guide safer, more efficient next steps in the engagement flow. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
