Within the Discussion Board area, write 400600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

After the footprinting tasks are completed, the attacker will have a good understanding about the security posture and very high-level network and server details. The next step that the attacker will perform is to scan and enumerate the systems. To help understand what scanning and enumeration are, provide your responses to the following:

Describe scanning and enumeration.

Discuss the pros and cons of 2 scanning and enumeration tools.

Explain how enumeration can be considered first contact.