Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook
This is the second edition of ‘Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook’. A book aimed for anyone who wants to master Nmap and its scripting engine through practical tasks for system administrators and penetration testers. Besides introducing the most powerful features of Nmap and related tools, common security auditing tasks for local and remote networks, web applications, databases, mail servers, Microsoft Windows machines and even ICS SCADA systems are explained step by step with exact commands and argument explanations.
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Difficulty Level
Intermediate
Completion Time
13h52m
Language
English
About Book
Who Is This Book For?
The book is for anyone who wants to master Nmap and its scripting engine to perform real life security auditing checks for system administrators and penetration testers. This book is also recommended to anyone looking to learn about network security auditing. Finally, novice Nmap users will also learn a lot from this book as it covers several advanced internal aspects of Nmap and related tools.
Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook
- About Book
- Who Is This Book For?
- Book Content
Book content
chapters • 13h52m total length
Nmap Fundamentals
Network Exploration
Reconnaissance Tasks
Scanning Web Servers
Scanning Databases
Scanning Mail Servers
Scanning Windows Systems
Scanning ICS SCADA Systems
Optimizing Scans
Generating Scan Reports
Writing Your Own NSE Scripts
Appendix A: HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options
Appendix B: Brute Force Password Auditing Options
Appendix C: NSE Debugging
Appendix D: Additional Output Options
Appendix E: Introduction to Lua
Appendix F: References and Additional Reading
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