Preface

Network Scanning Cookbook is intended for the intermediate and advanced audience in the field of information security. This book enables a user to understand the key aspects of network security scanning using Nmap and Nessus. It begins with an introduction to network scanning techniques and quickly moves onto the specifics of using Nmap and Nessus to perform network scans for configuration audits of devices. This book also explores a number of tools that will make your network scanning techniques highly customizable, further catering to the needs of any complex network audits that you might have to carry out. The book ends by looking at how these tools can be used to perform simple audits on critical systems such as SCADA/ICS.