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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook. Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips - Second Edition

Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook. Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips - Second Edition

Paulino Calderon

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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.
The book starts with the basic usage of Nmap and related tools like Ncat, Ncrack, Ndiff and Zenmap. The Nmap Scripting Engine is thoroughly covered through security checks used commonly in real-life scenarios applied for different types of systems. New chapters for Microsoft Windows and ICS SCADA systems were added and every recipe was revised. This edition reflects the latest updates and hottest additions to the Nmap project to date. The book will also introduce you to Lua programming and NSE script development allowing you to extend further the power of Nmap.
  • 1. Nmap Fundamentals
  • 2. Network Exploration
  • 3. Reconnaissance Tasks
  • 4. Scanning Web Servers
  • 5. Scanning Databases
  • 6. Scanning Mail Servers
  • 7. Scanning Windows Systems
  • 8. Scanning ICS SCADA Systems
  • 9. Optimizing Scans
  • 10. Generating Scan Reports
  • 11. Writing Your Own NSE Scripts
  • 12. Appendix A: HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options
  • 13. Appendix B: Brute Force Password Auditing Options
  • 14. Appendix C: NSE Debugging
  • 15. Appendix D: Additional Output Options
  • 16. Appendix E: Introduction to Lua
  • 17. Appendix F: References and Additional Reading
  • Title: Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook. Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips - Second Edition
  • Author: Paulino Calderon
  • Original title: Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook. Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781786461537, 9781786461537
  • Date of issue: 2017-05-26
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_15jw
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing