Security Automation with Ansible 2

Nmap NSE scanning playbook

The following playbook will perform enumeration of directories used by popular web applications and servers using http-enum and finds options that are supported by an HTTP server using http-methods using Nmap scripts.

More about Nmap NSE can be found at https://nmap.org/book/nse.html.

The following playbook will perform http-enum and http-methods scans against scanme.nmap.org of ports 80 and 443:

- name: Advanced NMAP Scan using NSE  hosts: localhost  vars:    ports:      - 80      - 443    scan_host: scanme.nmap.org   tasks:    - name: Running Nmap NSE scan      shell: "nmap -Pn -p {{ ports|join(',') }} --script {{ item }} -oA nmap-{{ item }}-results-%Y-%m-%d {{ scan_host }}"      with_items:        - http-methods        - http-enum

The following playbook ...