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The process of footprinting is the first step to gather information of hackers. To prevent a successful attack we need to obtain as much information possible, the hackers will try to learn everything and all the aspects possible from the perspective organization’s security posture, their profile of their Internet their remote access capabilities and intranet/extranet presence (Scambray, McClure, and Kurtz 2001). Any good or successful hacker will build their information database about any company security weakness. But the question that we should ask ourselves is, should be prepare in advance for any attack? Should we know our weakness way in advance to prepare ourselves? And the answer would be yes, which means the security personal need …show more content…

This report will focus on security of Amazon Company and will look at how security posture of the company will be done and solved. Footprinting is a process of using various tools and technologies to understand, learn the best to attack a main target. Any hacker, or attacker will try to find out as much as possible without actually giving themselves away, they will find public information or appear as normal internet users. Again the hacker or attacker will look up and find as much information as possible about the network, and the domain name of the company he is searching to find information. He the hacker will try to obtain information about the network blocks, any particular IP address, any network protocols in use by the company, IDSs (Intrusion Detection System), telephone numbers, ACLs (Access Control Lists). Remember hacker use this information to attack, the security personnel can and will use it to strengthen their security stance.
We need to look for locations, related companies, and merger or acquisition news, telephone numbers, contacts names and email addresses, any privacy or security policies indicating the types of security mechanisms in place they have, any links to other web servers related to the main organization. Amazon is a company that has establish itself as an online store that serves as a retail shop that

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