When you have identified the targets for testing, you'll want to perform some enumeration. This will help you to identify some potential paths for further reconnaissance or attacks. This is an important step. After all, if you were to try to steal something from a safe, you would first take a look to determine whether or not you'd need a pin, key, or combination, rather than simply attaching a stick of dynamite and potentially destroying the contents.

In this chapter, we will look at some ways that you can use Python to perform active enumeration.