Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Third Edition

Chapter 1: Nmap Fundamentals

Network Mapper (Nmap) was originally released by Gordon Lyon, known on the internet as Fyodor, in the infamous Phrack magazine Vol. 7 Issue 51 (https://nmap.org/p51-11.html). It is still acclaimed today as one of the best tools for network reconnaissance and security auditing in cybersecurity. The first public version was introduced as an advanced port scanner along with a paper describing research on novel techniques for port discovery, but since then, it has gone down a long road and become so much more. The Nmap project itself evolved into a family of advanced networking tools that includes amazing projects such as Ncrack, Ncat, Nping, Zenmap, and, built into Nmap itself, the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE). Fyodor's ...