Chapter 2

Introducing Nmap

Introduction

In the first chapter, we learned about network scanning at a high level and discussed some of the different technologies and methodologies available to perform scans. Now we’re going to start our deep dive into one of the most popular network scanning tools of all time, Nmap, which can be found at http://insecure.org/nmap/index.html. Having a background in IT audit, information security or even system administration will definitely help as you start to learn about this tool. However, the neat thing about Nmap is ...

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