Nmap in the Enterprise: Your Guide to Network Scanning (Paperback)

Chapter 1: Introducing Network Scanning. This chapter will cover the fundamentals of network scanning and how it works and why it is used. It will also include the necessary TCP/IP and networking background for a beginning user.
Chapter 2: Introducing Nmap. This chapter will provide an overview of the nmap tool including the main features, basic functionality, history, and other resources. This chapter will also cover the uses of nmap such as security auditing, policy compliance testing, network inventory, and asset management.
Chapter 3: Using Nmap. This chapter will cover downloading and installing nmap and cover its basic usage including command line options for scanning techniques, ping options, OS fingerprinting, logging, and other options. It should also include a section on Windows only options.
Chapter 4: Fingerprinting with Nmap. This chapter will cover the fundamentals of operating system fingerprinting and version detection. It will provide details on how nmap performs fingerprinting. This chapter will also include related tools such as IP Personality and Morph that are used to defeat nmap fingerprinting.
Chapter 5: Detection and Evasion with Nmap. This chapter will provide an overview of the methods used to detect nmap scans, such as Snort signatures. It will also cover Nmap evasion techniques that are used to evade detection.
Chapter 6: Scanning in the Real World. This chapter will provide several examples of nmap scanning and the results of the scan. It will be written so the user can follow along as if he/she is performing the scan, thus mimicking a real life scenario or lab work. A good example to include would be using nmap to audit a firewall.
Chapter 7: Tooling Around with Nmap. This chapter will cover a variety of tools that either use nmap or work with nmap to perform various network and security-related functionality. Tools may include Remote nmap (Rnmap), Bilbo, NDiff, nlog, Sawmill, and Nmap-Parser.