From the course: Complete Guide to Linux Security: Protecting Your Linux Server Environment
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Nmap - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Complete Guide to Linux Security: Protecting Your Linux Server Environment
Nmap
- One of the best scanning programs out there is Nmap. It is indispensable for me. It's a big part of my toolkit when it comes to the security side of things and analysis and auditing. And it can be used to scan, among other things, individual computers and networks. So in this sub-lesson, we'll discuss why a person would use Nmap; we'll install Nmap to our Linux virtual machine, and we've actually already shown it and installed it on one of the virtual machines I'm working on; we'll run a scan of our network with Nmap; and then we'll scan individual systems with Nmap; and we'll ascertain which ports are open vulnerabilities on those remote systems. So let's jump over to our Debian client. And if we run the nmap command, if you get messages, you know you have it installed. If you don't, you can do a sudo apt install nmap. But again, we don't have to do that. It is already installed here. So let's do a couple scans. The first thing I want to do is scan my virtualization network. So I'm…
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