Lab 1 — Full Target Reconnaissance
Assignment and grading rubric for the first graded lab: produce a complete reconnaissance dossier on an authorized target, with no exploitation whatsoever.
4 hrs/week
Released W4 · Due W6 · Weight: 10% Authorized target: the lab's "AlphaTech" environment (Docker targets + provided domain).
Mission
Produce a complete reconnaissance dossier, with no exploitation, in compliance with the RoE you wrote in W2.
Learning objective of this lab
This lab validates the skills from weeks 3 to 5: knowing how to map a target from A to Z before any exploitation. Reconnaissance often accounts for 60 to 70% of the time in a real engagement — the better you know the target, the faster and more targeted the exploitation (Lab 2) will be. What's assessed here is rigor and completeness, not the ability to "hack."