I tell you, maybe it's because I started life as an English major in college and quickly changed majors
when I realized I wouldn't get a job with that.
But anyways, I did.
I just love English.
I guess it's no surprise how many books I've written.
But anyways, why am I talking about this?
It's because of the word innumerate.
What a great word it is a word that is strong enough to really convey what's happening here.
Attackers are enumerating as much from our network as they possibly can.
They are recording all the information they can gain about users resources that are available.
It is a strong word and it should be.
This is where just information extraction is taking place exhaustively.
And keep in mind that this is one of those rare times where we're not talking about passively.
We are talking about actively querying machines and getting as much information as those machines can
give as possible.
Notice that the enumeration phase is often part of that reconnaissance and planning.
As the bigger attack is probably coming, enumeration is often something that will identify points of
attack for an attack team.
Now we have to remember this almost always comes down to what services and therefore what ports we have
available.
And you should have some of these memorized.
DNS zone transfers.
What would that be utilizing either TCP or UDP port 53 Simple Network Management Protocol.
UDP Port 161.
Simple mail transfer for a protocol.
TCP 25 l dap.
I completely forget.
I should know LDAP.
So we should know our port numbers.
And of course we have a flashcard assignment to help with these.
If you find yourself struggling, well, let's get into great detail on these various enumeration techniques
in the very next video.