Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v12 312-50 Exam Guide

Chapter 5: Enumeration

Enumeration is interesting. It does something that we typically don't want to happen. It makes systems behave abnormally or in a way that we wouldn't expect them to. Steve Wozniak, one of Apple's founders, said that a lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things, and that's exactly what enumeration does for us. Enumerating is a core part of evaluating any target. An enumeration can be as simple as running a reverse DNS lookup on an IP address, or as complex as the entire OSINT process being run on a target. Enumerating a target is one of the most important steps in penetration testing. The goal of performing enumeration on a network is to gather as much information about the ...