CEH v11 Certified Ethical Hacker Study Guide

Chapter 4Footprinting and Reconnaissance

THE FOLLOWING CEH  TOPICS ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

• Technical assessment methods
• Port scanning
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Data analysis
• Vulnerability scanning

 It's commonly believed that attackers do a lot of work up front before launching attacks. They get a sense of how large the attack surface is and where their targets are. This can take a lot of work, using a lot of different tool and skill sets. The process of getting the size and scope of the target is called footprinting—in other words, the attacker, or you, the ethical hacker, is trying to pick up the footprint of the target organization. ...