{"id":37791,"date":"2022-01-19T13:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T07:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=37791"},"modified":"2022-01-19T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T09:29:07","slug":"footprinting-in-ethical-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/footprinting-in-ethical-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Footprinting in Ethical Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Footprinting ?<\/h2>\n

Footprinting is a part of the Inspection phase of Ethical Hacking<\/a> in which you gather information about the system\/ application. The main goal of Footprinting is to gather as much information as possible about the system\/ application to narrow down the areas and techniques of attack. Footprinting is a very important part of Ethical Hacking.<\/p>\n

Visualize you are a famous Ethical Hacker<\/a> and you get a job to check a Web Application for vulnerabilities. You get the name of the association whose website you have to test. How would you start testing the website for vulnerabilities? You would start by gathering information about that website.<\/p>\n

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Why is Footprinting Important ?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Footprinting is one of the important phases of Ethical Hacking. For ex, Movie Plot. Assume you are looking a Bank robbery movie, there are people who have planned to rob a bank. Movies like Ocean\u2019s Eleven, The Italian Job, or Fast and Furious, do the characters directly buy guns and masks and enter the bank to rob it? No! If they did this, they wouldn\u2019t be able to rob the bank successfully.<\/p>\n

So, what do they do before robbing the bank? They make a good plan on how to enter the bank, how to handle the security, and make an escape plan. And to plan the robbery, they need to see certain things about the bank, the way it activates, how the security works, etc. Knowing about the bank plays an important role in making the plan.<\/p>\n

In the same way, knowing about the system\/ application is very important for ethical hacking because it will let you know what type of vulnerabilities can be found and what attacks are suitable.<\/p>\n

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Types of Footprinting<\/h2>\n

It can be divided into two types:<\/p>\n