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Mastering Nmap
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(65 ratings)
453 students

Mastering Nmap

A step-by-step tutorial to gain expertise in Nmap
Created byPackt Publishing
Last updated 5/2017
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn network security concepts that are required to properly comprehend and grasp how all Nmap utilities work the way they do.
  • Handle large numbers of results from scanning large networks.
  • IT administrators can effectively monitor their network for critical changes that might lead to potential vulnerabilities, by comparing the results from everyday scans.
  • Master the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) by writing new (and customizing existing) Lua scripts that further extend Nmap's capabilities.
  • Utilize the Nmap suite's accompanying tools to refine and effectively automate your everyday network tasks, including debugging, visualizing, monitoring, and network auditing.
  • Conduct host discovery, port scanning, and version and OS detection for every system in your network.

Course content

7 sections • 24 lectures • 2h 59m total length

  • The Course Overview5:17
    This video provides an overview of the entire course.
  • Nmap Primer10:43

    The aim of the video is to let the viewer get acquainted with Nmap and show them its basic functionality and capabilities.

  • Network Security Fundamentals8:44

    The aim of this video is to introduce some fundamental network security concepts that are needed to get a basic understanding of how Nmap works.

  • Service Version Detection5:47

    The aim of this video is to learn how to use Nmap’s Service Version Detection, why it is important and how it works behind the scenes.

  • Operating System Detection4:26
    The aim of the video is to get acquainted with Nmap’s remote Operating System detection capability.

Requirements

  • They need have no knowledge about Nmap. However, a basic knowledge of Nmap will be helpful.

Description

You will learn how to use Nmap to implement a wide variety of practical tasks related to pentesting and network monitoring. The tutorial will start with basic scanning techniques and explain Nmap fundamentals. Moving on, we will cover the advanced functionalities of the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) such as libraries, scripts, APIs, and so on. You will be able to perform custom tasks, learn the fundamentals of Lua programming, scan and assess mail servers and databases, Windows machines and their associated services as well as large networks.

About the Author

Fotis Chantzis has been a member of the main Nmap development team since 2009, when he wrote Ncrack under the mentorship of Fyodor, the original author of Nmap, during Google Summer of Code 2009 and 2010. He also represented Nmap at the Google Mentor Summit in October 2016. He is passionate about network security and is actively and professionally involved in the information security field, with his research having been published on Phrack and other venues.

Who this course is for:

  • Aimed at system and network admins along with IT security professionals who wish to master Nmap.

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