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Enumerating Target
• A brief background concept describing port scanning and various port scanning types supported by the port
scanning tools
• The tools that can be used to carry out network scanning task
• The tools that can be used to do SMB enumeration on the Windows environment
• The tools that can be used to do SNMP enumeration
• The tool that can be used to enumerate the IPsec VPN server

In this weeks class we discussed target discovery, which states that :

• A description of the target discovery process
• The method used to identify target machines using the tools in Kali Linux
• The steps required to find the operating systems of the target machines (operating system fingerprinting)

Enumerating Target
• A brief background concept describing port scanning and various port scanning types supported by the port
scanning tools
• The tools that can be used to carry out network scanning task
• The tools that can be used to do SMB enumeration on the Windows environment
• The tools that can be used to do SNMP enumeration
• The tool that can be used to enumerate the IPsec VPN server

Utilizing search engines can help us gather more information about the target and there are various methods that we can use such as :

1. Shodan- which is a search engine that lets the user find specific types of computers connected to the internet using a variety of filters.
2. TheHarvester – gathers email accounts usernames and host addresses
3. Maltego – It is an open-source intelligence and forensics application and shows how information is connected to each other.