Chapter 1, Nmap Fundamentals, covers the most common tasks performed with Nmap. In addition, it introduces Rainmap Lite, Ndiff, Nping, Ncrack, Ncat, and Zenmap.
Chapter 2, Network Exploration, covers host discovery techniques supported by Nmap and other useful tricks with the Nmap Scripting Engine.
Chapter 3, Reconnaissance Tasks, covers interesting information-gathering tasks with Nmap and the Nmap Scripting Engine.
Chapter 4, Scanning Web Servers, covers tasks related to web servers and web application security auditing.
Chapter 5, Scanning Databases, covers security auditing tasks for MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, and NoSQL databases.
Chapter 6, Scanning Mail Servers, covers different tasks for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP servers.
Chapter 7, Scanning Windows Systems, covers tasks for security auditing Microsoft Windows systems.
Chapter 8, Scanning ICS SCADA Systems, covers tasks for scanning and identifying Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.
Chapter 9, Optimizing Scans, covers tasks from scan optimization to the distribution of scans among several clients.
Chapter 10, Generating Scan Reports, covers the output options supported by Nmap and some additional nonofficial tools to generate reports in formats that are not supported.
Chapter 11, Writing Your Own NSE Scripts, covers the fundamentals of NSE development. It includes specific examples to handle sockets, output, NSE libraries, and parallelism.
Appendix A, HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options, covers the configuration options of libraries related to the protocol HTTP.
Appendix B, Brute Force Password Auditing Options, covers configuration options of the NSE brute force engine.
Appendix C, NSE Debugging, covers the debugging options for the Nmap Scripting Engine.
Appendix D, Additional Output Options, covers additional output options supported by Nmap.
Appendix E, Introduction to Lua, covers the basics of Lua programming.
Appendix F, References and Additional Reading, covers references, additional reading, and official documentation used throughout this book.
