Exploring SecOps Tools: Network Scanning Using Nmap

The Network Mapper (Nmap) utility is a free open-source network discovery and security auditing tool. Nmap is one of the industrys leading network scanning tools and is commonly used to discover hosts and services on a computer network. In this course youll explore the history of Nmap its features and benefits and the potential limitations and considerations of the Nmap tool. Discover how to download install and explore the Nmap utility user interface and how to perform Nmap TCP connect and Nmap stealth scans. Lastly explore when to use Nmap to perform inverse scans and discover situations that warrant using Nmap to perform an ACK scan.