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

Pale, Paulino Calderon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786467453 ISBN 13: 9781786467454

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

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<

About this title

About the Author

Paulino Calderon

Paulino Calderon (@calderpwn on Twitter) is the cofounder of Websec, a company offering information security consulting services based in Mexico and Canada. When he is not traveling to a security conference or conducting on-site consulting for Fortune 500 companies, he spends peaceful days in Cozumel, a beautiful small island in the Caribbean, learning new technologies, conducting big data experiments, developing new tools, and finding bugs in software. Paulino is active in the open source community, and his contributions are used by millions of people in the information security industry. In 2011, Paulino joined the Nmap team during the Google Summer of Code to work on the project as an NSE developer. He focused on improving the web scanning capabilities of Nmap, and he has kept contributing to the project since then. In addition, he has been a mentor for students who focused on vulnerability detection during the Google Summer of Code 2015 and 2017. He has published Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook and Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine, which cover practical tasks with Nmap and NSE development in depth. He loves attending information security conferences, and he has given talks and participated in workshops in dozens of events in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Curacao.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786467453
• ISBN 13: 9781786467454
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416