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Mastering Nmap [Video]

By : Fotios Chantzis
Book Image

Mastering Nmap [Video]

By: Fotios Chantzis

Overview of this book

You will learn how to use this tool to implement a wide variety of practical tasks related to pentesting and network monitoring. The tutorial will start with installation techniques and then explain Nmap fundamentals. Moving on, we will cover the advanced functionalities of Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) such as libraries, scripts, APIs, and so on. You will be able to perform custom tasks, the fundamentals of Lua programming, scanning mail servers, scanning databases, windows machines, SCADA systems, and large networks.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 1
Scanning Your First Targets
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Section 3
Network Security Fundamentals
The aim of this video is to introduce some fundamental network security concepts that are needed to get a basic understanding of how Nmap works. - The first step is to talk about the OSI layer and how packets are exchanged between remote hosts. - Then we delve into analyzing the TCP and IP headers. - Finally, we walk though how the TCP SYN scan works.