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

Over 100 practical recipes related to network and application security auditing using the powerful Nmap

About This Book

• Learn through practical recipes how to use Nmap for a wide range of tasks for system administrators and penetration testers.
• Learn the latest and most useful features of Nmap and the Nmap Scripting Engine.
• Learn to audit the security of networks, web applications, databases, mail servers, Microsoft Windows servers/workstations and even ICS systems.
• Learn to develop your own modules for the Nmap Scripting Engine.
• Become familiar with Lua programming.
• 100% practical tasks, relevant and explained step-by-step with exact commands and optional arguments description

Who This Book Is 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.

What You Will Learn

• Learn about Nmap and related tools, such as Ncat, Ncrack, Ndiff, Zenmap and the Nmap Scripting Engine
• Master basic and advanced techniques to perform port scanning and host discovery
• Detect insecure configurations and vulnerabilities in web servers, databases, and mail servers
• Learn how to detect insecure Microsoft Windows workstations and scan networks using the Active Directory technology
• Learn how to safely identify and scan critical ICS/SCADA systems<

• Country	USA
  Brand	Packt Publishing
  Manufacturer	Packt Publishing
  Binding	Paperback
  ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
  ReleaseDate	2017-05-26
  UnitCount	1
  EANs	9781786467454