Chapter 7, Problem 11RQ

Program Plan Intro

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.