Importance of Maintaining the Inventory in Reconnaissance Process: The 1st step of Ethical Hacking

Gathering the information is the 1st step of ethical Hacking as in my previous writing I have already mentioned that in the context of ethical hacking, it involves three major phases. Information collecting, finding the vulnerability and exploitation. Inventory management refers to organizing the collected information whatever the actor has gotten from the target infrastructure. There are several ways to maintain this. I am disclosing these things precisely. We may maintain a log book, other possible way may be initialize a spreadsheet. Moreover, whatever a IT personnel feel comfort for well management of this. Whatever the information should track: It may be IP address of the target. Another ingredient can be storing of target name(domain or subdomain). Additionally, the hacker could store the used search queries(using google dorking). On the other point, He/She may consider the utilized operating system. At final, the security investigator may think over the open ports, any collected passwords, as well as known vulnerabilities. Happy Learning.