Reconnaissance the first and probably most important step of pentesting and red-blue teaming exercises. A well done recon can help prioritize which systems to go behind first and to dedicate more time and resources. In recent times, there has been a lot of technological progress in fields in web development, cloud tech, machine learning etc. which has led to a fundamental change in how networks are created and run. There has also been an introduction of a ton of new network and application components because of this. The focus of this course to help attendees understand these new technologies and components better.
In it important to note that this is a Recon course and not an exploitation one. The latter will be covered in a different course.