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Testing Security Controls and Detecting Vulnerabilities with Nmap 7
This course will help you will learn how to leverage the capabilities of Nmap to find insecure applications and explore the weaknesses in your organization’s firewalls.
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1 hour 38 minutes 
english
Online - Self Paced
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About Testing Security Controls and Detecting Vulnerabilities with Nmap 7
Testing network security controls and discovering vulnerabilities are important parts of any organizations security plan. In this course, Testing Security Controls and Detecting Vulnerabilities with Nmap 7, you will learn how to do just that. First, you will learn how Nmap conducts host discovery. Next, you will see how to perform port scans. Finally, you will learn how Nmap detects applications and operating systems. After finishing this course, you will know how to leverage the capabilities of Nmap to find insecure applications and explore the weaknesses in your organization’s network security devices.
What You Will Learn?
- Course Overview : 2mins.
- Using Nmap for Security Testing : 5mins.
- Host Enumeration and Network Mapping : 20mins.
- Detecting Vulnerabilities with Nmap Port Scanning : 28mins.
- Leveraging Service and Application Version Detection : 9mins.
- Using OS Detection for Security Testing : 9mins.
- Detecting and Evading Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems : 11mins.
- Understanding the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) : 9mins.
- Wrapping Up : 2mins.