NMAP Essentials

Key Features

Book Description

What you will learn

• Learn about the inner workings of networks and the importance of ports
• Run a basic or default scan to detect services using Nmap
• Run an advanced scan with Nmap to designate different types of scans
• Deal with slow or sluggish networks to optimize timing, parallelism, and so on in order to complete scans efficiently
• Understand the internal workings of the Nmap scripting engine to find and run specific Nmap scripts
• Create and run a basic Nmap script in Lua by learning Lua basics, Nmap scripting, and Nmap script submission
• Crack passwords with Ncrack, map networks with Nping, and communicate over the network with Ncat

Who this book is for

This book is for beginners who wish to start using Nmap, who have experience as a system administrator or of network engineering, and who wish to get started with Nmap.