Nmap: Professional Network Scanning

Become a pro at using Nmap to discover computers, services, and vulnerabilities on networks!

Created by: Jason Wood
Security Professional, Instructor and Podcaster

What Will I Learn?

• Gain critical skills to become a penetration tester, ethical hacker, and security professional
• You will become skilled at testing your network security using one of the most powerful network security tools available
• Learn how to rapidly and safely scan networks for undiscovered hosts and services
• Learn the basics of the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) and start to build your own NSE scripts
• You will know the details of how Nmap works and apply them to real world scanning situations
• Perform network scanning safely and effectively

Requirements

• Students should have the knowledge and ability to setup virtual machines to run Nmap on and to scan against.
• Basic familiarity with the Linux command line is extremely helpful
• A computer system with the sufficient hardware resources to run one to two virtual machines. 4GBs of memory is a minimum and 8GBs is recommended.

Target audience

• Systems administrators, network administrators, network security admins
• IT professionals and developers
• Security enthusiasts and those curious about discovering hosts on networks