Gathering information about your targets is more than just a beginning steps in the overall attack, it’s the essential skill you will need to be perfect as ethical hacker.
The main focuses and benefits of footprinting for the ethical hacker:
- Know the security posture (footprinting helps make this clear)
- Reduce the focus area (Network range, number of targets, and so on).
- Identify vulnerabilities
- Draw a network map.
