From the course: Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance
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Monitoring websites
From the course: Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance
Monitoring websites
- [Instructor] Monitoring a website during an ethical hacking exercise can be crucial for various reasons. In this segment, we'll outline methods to monitor websites for traffic, changes, and vulnerabilities. First, let's talk about why we need to monitor a website. One reason is it helps us to understand site behavior for things such as user interaction, engagement, and responsiveness. It may be part of compliance guidelines that require the organization to test and monitor their site. It provides a way to check to make sure there are no unauthorized changes that may have occurred, either maliciously or by accident. And monitoring a website will reveal vulnerabilities that can exist within the site. The good news is that there are plenty of tools out there to assess a website. Let's review a few of the sites available today. I'm here at SolarWinds Pingdom. Now, Pingdom is used to gather website analytics. Pingdom…
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