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Website Penetration Testing

What is Footprinting

Footprinting or Reconnaissance is also known as information gathering phase. It refers to gathering as much information as possible related to the organization and host, people, or network associated with it.

Information such as ip addresses, DNS records, operating system used, employee details are collected in this phase.

Footprinting helps to know security posture (details about presence of a firewall, security configuration of applications, etc), reduce attack area (identify specific range of systems and concentrate on particular targets), identifying vulnerabilities and drawing network maps (network map of target organization covering topology, routers, servers, etc)