Nt1330 Unit 3 Assignment Of Information Gathering

Information gathering is a key element when you are trying to find some hidden data about someone, a company, or even a school. In a university, I could determine what the internet protocol address range by going to a web browser and typing in WHOIS in the search engine. Afterwards I would click the WHOIS link and it will take me to a screen with a text search box where I would put in the domain name of the university and hit search. Then I should see the results and it will give me the university’s IP addresses in a range from beginning to end. If I wanted to retrieve data from the Domain Name System, I would log into one of their networks and go to the command line interface and use the nslookup command tool that will allow me to retrieve information from the DNS server saying what is the current server I am currently on and its IP address. In addition I could get more information just by using the nslookup
The information that would publicly published on the web and that will be worth gathering would be their full name, telephone numbers, email addresses, and the address where they live. Some challenges that I might encounter in my scans of the university are firewalls, an intrusion detection system, or a DMZ will detect me and it will prevent me from going through to obtain information. Also the university might have already sanitized their public information that is on the web. Some data the will be missing are the people that are responsible for every network device, this will be hard because there name will appear as unknown and it will be difficult where to locate that specific network in the