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Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649357
Length 436 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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 1. Appendix Β: Brute-Force Password Auditing Options 2. Appendix C: NSE Debugging 3. Appendix D: Additional Output Options 4. Appendix Ε: Introduction to Lua 5. Appendix F: References and Additional Reading

Chapter 1: Nmap Fundamentals

Network Mapper (Nmap) was originally released by Gordon Lyon, known on the internet as Fyodor, in the infamous Phrack magazine Vol. 7 Issue 51 (https://nmap.org/p51-11.html). It is still acclaimed today as one of the best tools for network reconnaissance and security auditing in cybersecurity. The first public version was introduced as an advanced port scanner along with a paper describing research on novel techniques for port discovery, but since then, it has gone down a long road and become so much more. The Nmap project itself evolved into a family of advanced networking tools that includes amazing projects such as Ncrack, Ncat, Nping, Zenmap, and, built into Nmap itself, the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE). Fyodor's own description on the official website is as follows:

"Nmap (Network Mapper) is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for...

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