You're reading from Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838649357

Length 436 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Nmap

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Paulino Calderon

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Nmap Fundamentals

2. Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with Nmap's Family FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Network Scanning

4. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance Tasks

5. Chapter 5: Scanning Web Servers

6. Chapter 6: Scanning Databases

7. Chapter 7: Scanning Mail Servers

8. Chapter 8: Scanning Windows Systems

9. Chapter 9: Scanning ICS/SCADA Systems

10. Chapter 10: Scanning Mainframes

11. Chapter 11: Optimizing Scans

12. Chapter 12: Generating Scan Reports

13. Chapter 13: Writing Your Own NSE Scripts

14. Chapter 14: Exploiting Vulnerabilities with the Nmap Scripting Engine

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A: HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options

HTTP user agent

1. Appendix Β: Brute-Force Password Auditing Options

Brute modes

2. Appendix C: NSE Debugging

3. Appendix D: Additional Output Options

4. Appendix Ε: Introduction to Lua

5. Appendix F: References and Additional Reading

Why subscribe?

Technical requirements

The following tools are officially part of the Nmap project and were created to accomplish common tasks for network diagnostics and security scanning:

Nping (https://nmap.org/nping/) specializes in custom network packet crafting for diagnostics and troubleshooting.
Ncrack (https://nmap.org/ncrack/) focuses on network authentication cracking, supporting the most popular applications and protocols.
Ncat (https://nmap.org/ncat/) is an enhanced version of Netcat that supports encryption out of the box and is extensible using Lua scripts.
Zenmap (https://nmap.org/zenmap/) is a cross-platform GUI for Nmap focused on usability.
NSE (https://nmap.org/book/nse.html) takes information obtained from scanned targets and provides an interface for users to script additional tasks using Lua.