ABC bank, a UK-based bank hired Anthony, to perform a penetration test for the bank. Anthony began performing lookups on the bank’s DNS servers, reading news articles online about the bank, performing competitive intelligence gathering, watching what times the bank employees come and go, and searching the bank’s job postings. What phase of the penetration testing is Anthony currently in?

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ABC bank, a UK-based bank hired Anthony, to perform a penetration test for the bank. Anthony began performing lookups on the bank’s DNS servers, reading news articles online about the bank, performing competitive intelligence
gathering, watching what times the bank employees come and go, and searching the bank’s job postings. What phase of the penetration testing is Anthony currently in?





Attack phase
Post-attack phase
Pre-attack phase
Remediation phase

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