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Network Scanning Cookbook

You're reading from   Network Scanning Cookbook Practical network security using Nmap and Nessus 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789346480
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sairam Jetty Sairam Jetty
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Network Vulnerability Scanning FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Network Scanning Tools 3. Port Scanning 4. Vulnerability Scanning 5. Configuration Audits 6. Report Analysis and Confirmation 7. Understanding the Customization and Optimization of Nessus and Nmap 8. Network Scanning for IoT, SCADA/ICS 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Downloading and installing Nmap

Nmap is a free and open source network scanning and audit tool available at https://Nmap.org/. This tool is one of the most important components of a network-level security audit, as it allows the user to monitor or observe the network-level posture of a host by providing data about open ports and services running on these ports. The Nmap tool also allows interaction with these services and the running of various scripts using Nmap Script Engine (NSE). The following command is the syntax to perform TCP syn full port scanning on the host 127.0.0.1:

Nmap -sS -p1-65535 127.0.0.1

We will be looking into recipes for the usage of the Nmap tool in further chapters.

Getting ready

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