May 2015
Beginner to intermediate
118 pages
2h 29m
English
Overview
"NMAP Essentials" provides a comprehensive guide to using Nmap, the renowned network scanning tool, for network security and management. Through this book, you will learn how to effectively scan networks, optimize scan performance, and leverage powerful features like scripting capabilities and additional tools, enabling you to enhance the security and efficiency of your network infrastructure.
What this Book will help me do
- Understand the basic and advanced functionalities of Nmap and how it aids in network scanning.
- Effectively detect and analyze network services and protocols using Nmap's various scanning techniques.
- Optimize Nmap for performance, allowing you to handle complex and large networks efficiently.
- Gain insights into the Nmap Scripting Engine and learn how to create custom scripts in Lua.
- Apply supporting tools like Nping, Ncrack, and Ncat to complement your network analysis and security tasks.
Author(s)
None Shaw, the author of "NMAP Essentials", is an experienced network professional with a passion for teaching practical tools and techniques for network security. Their expertise includes penetration testing, network diagnostics, and deployment of large-scale networking solutions. Through this book, they aim to make Nmap accessible to professionals new to this field.
Who is it for?
This book is designed for readers who are starting their journey with Nmap and have a background in system administration or network engineering. It is suitable for those aiming to secure networks, optimize their infrastructure, and broaden their knowledge in network security. If you're looking to enhance your technical skill set in Nmap, this book is for you.
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.