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

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Chapter 10: Scanning Mainframes

Although mainframes and their usage were supposed to fade away in today's world, the reality is that a large number of enterprises still rely on them to process huge amounts of data. This means that they are going to stick around for even longer with the existence of low-cost cloud technologies. In particular, Nmap initially lacked the support to identify and scan mainframes properly. However, thanks to a lot of work from Soldier of FORTRAN (https://github.com/mainframed), this is no longer the case.

This chapter will introduce you to the libraries and scripts that are available when working with IBM mainframes, specifically, the z/OS operating system. IBM's flagship operating system is designed for large volume operations with security and stability in mind. You will learn how to gather information and launch enumeration and brute-force attacks on these ancient, but still very present, types of systems.

In this chapter, we will cover...