In this chapter, we covered how to choose a target, run a default scan, check service versions, log scans (and what the different log types mean), specify special scan ranges, and learn the reasoning for Nmap results.

In the next chapter, we will talk about how to ensure your scans are running at peak performance. Nmap has several features that can help scans run quickly, and deliver the results as accurately as possible. Each of these timing, parallelism, and performance improvements will be categorized and explained in the next chapter.