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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.

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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