Reconnaissance: Scanning with NMAP, Vulnerability Assessment with OpenVAS

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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