A healthcare institution recently hired you to review their security measures. You discover that they have not been monitoring access to publicly available information that could be used for social engineering attacks. Which type of reconnaissance is the institution most vulnerable to?
The institution is most vulnerable to passive reconnaissance. This is because passive reconnaissance involves collecting information without directly interacting with the target system, often by gathering accessible data such as company records, employee social media profiles, or public documents. This kind of information is exactly what the institution has not been monitoring, which could lead to an attacker collecting data without detection to facilitate social engineering or other types of attacks.
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