Nmap: Network Scanning Basics to Advanced Techniques

Build your skills with this powerful network scanner to discover hosts, find vulnerabilities and protect your network!

How confident are you that you know all the hosts on your network? Do you know what services they are running? Do you have some doubts about whether you can safely scan your network? If the answers to these questions are less than satisfactory, then this course is for you!

What is this course about and why should you take it?

Nmap: Network Scanning Basics to Advanced Techniques covers how to use one of the most powerful and flexible network scanners available. It is the scanner that other scanners are measured against. This course will start off with the basics of network scanning with Nmap and move into how you can use it safely and effectively in your network. We will use practical examples and demonstrations to show how you can use Nmap right now!

Some of the topics include:

Getting and installing Nmap
Port scanning basics with Nmap
Reading, analyzing and saving scan output
Types of Nmap port scans and when to use them
Under the hood of Nmap and how it works
Host discovery scanning
Operating system discovery
Service detection scans
Safe scanning techniques
Performance and tuning considerations
Nmap Scripting Engine
When you complete this course, you will have gone from the basics of Nmap to how to customize your scans to solve some of the different problems you may be facing with your network.