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Improve your defence capabilities with OSINT – white paper

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07.09.2020

Get concrete applications from our pentesters to limit your attack surface by using functionalities of Search Engines. Read more.

How to use advanced search engine functionalities to improve your defence and response capabilities?

By using Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) — information collected from public sources — a hacker can find useful information that may compromise your security. Fortunately, this same information can also be leveraged by security professionals to limit your attack surface.

Discover practical techniques used by our pentesters — fill in the form to get your copy!

For CISOs, DPOs, IT Security Experts, Penetration Testers, and Forensic Analysts.

This white paper is authored by Dimitri Diakodimitris, Cyber Security Senior Consultant at Approach.

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