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Security Automation with Ansible 2
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Security Automation with Ansible 2

by Akash Mahajan, MADHU AKULA
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
364 pages
7h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Nmap scanning and NSE

Network Mapper (Nmap) is a free open source software to perform network discovery, scanning, audit, and many others. It has a various amount of features such as OS detection, system fingerprinting, firewall detection, and many other features. Nmap Scripting Engine (Nmap NSE) provides advanced capabilities like scanning for particular vulnerabilities and attacks. We can also write and extend Nmap using our own custom script. Nmap is a swiss army knife for pen testers (security testers) and network security teams. 

Read more about Nmap at https://nmap.orgAnsible also has a module to perform the inventory using Nmap https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32857/files.

The following playbook will install Nmap if not available ...

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ISBN: 9781788394512