What this book covers

Chapter 1, Nmap Fundamentals, covers the most common tasks performed with Nmap. Additionally, it briefly introduces Ndiff, Nping, and Zenmap.

Chapter 2, Network Exploration, covers host discovery techniques supported by Nmap, and other useful tricks with the Nmap Scripting Engine.

Chapter 3, Gathering Additional Host Information covers interesting information gathering tasks with Nmap and its scripting engine.

Chapter 4, Auditing Web Servers, covers tasks related to web security auditing.

Chapter 5, Auditing Databases, covers security auditing tasks for MongoDB, MySQL, MS SQL, and CouchDB databases.

Chapter 6, Auditing Mail Servers, covers tasks for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP servers.

Chapter 7, Scanning Large Networks, covers tasks that are useful when scanning large networks ranging from scan optimization to distributing scans among several clients.

Chapter 8, Generating Scan Reports, covers the output options supported by Nmap.

Chapter 9, Writing Your Own NSE Scripts, covers the fundamentals of NSE development. It includes specific examples for handling sockets, output, libraries, and parallelism.

Appendix, References, covers references and official documentation used throughout this book.