Principles of Information Security (MindTap Course List)
Principles of Information Security (MindTap Course List)
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781337102063
Author: Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Network footprinting:

  • An activity where the information about the organization along with their network activities and asserts are being gathered is called as network footprinting.
  • It is a process where an organized research and investigation is made on internet address possessed by a targeted organization.
  • Footprinting is a process where information that is available in public are gathered about a particular organization.
  • The attackers generally collect information such as IP (Internet Protocol) address of an organization to make organized attack.
  • Footprinting is performed with the help of public internet data sources such as organization’s webpage which can contain information about the internal systems.

Network Fingerprinting:

  • It is a process where a systematic survey is performed on the organization that is targeted to gather the information of an organization’s internet address.
  • The activity involves scanning the network setting of an organization active system and using that the network service offered by the host system gets identified.
  • It is an activity that takes place next to the footprinting process through which a company resources and addresses gets discovered.

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