Saturday, February 10, 2007

Some InfoSecurity

Footprinting
is the organized research of the Internet addresses owned or controlled by a target organization.


Fingerprinting
is a systematic survey of all of the target organization's Internet addresses (which were collected during the footprinting phase); the survey is conducted to ascertain the network services offered by the hosts in that range.



Source:

Whitman, M, & Mattord, H (2005). Principles of information security.Canada: Thomson.

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