Calderon Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine

Master the Nmap Scripting Engine and the art of developing NSE scripts
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78216-832-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you want to learn to write your own scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine, this is the book for you. It is perfect for network administrators, information security professionals, and even Internet enthusiasts who are familiar with Nmap.What you will learn - Get to grips with the fundamentals of Lua, the programming language used by the Nmap Scripting Engine
- Extend the capabilities of Nmap by writing your own NSE scripts
- Explore the Nmap Scripting Engine API
- Discover all the available NSE libraries
- Write robust brute force password auditing scripts
- Customize the databases distributed with Nmap
- Produce flexible script reports in NSE
- Optimize Nmap scans with script and library arguments
- Enhance the version detection capabilities of Nmap
Who this book is forIf you want to learn to write your own scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine, this is the book for you. It is perfect for network administrators, information security professionals, and even Internet enthusiasts who are familiar with Nmap.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calderon, Paulino

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit

Über Autor(innen)

Calderon Paulino :

Paulino Calderon (@calderpwn on Twitter) is the cofounder of Websec, a company offering information security consulting services based in Mexico and Canada. When he is not traveling to a security conference or conducting on-site consulting for Fortune 500 companies, he spends peaceful days in Cozumel, a beautiful small island in the Caribbean, learning new technologies, conducting big data experiments, developing new tools, and finding bugs in software. Paulino is active in the open source community, and his contributions are used by millions of people in the information security industry. In 2011, Paulino joined the Nmap team during the Google Summer of Code to work on the project as an NSE developer. He focused on improving the web scanning capabilities of Nmap, and he has kept contributing to the project since then. In addition, he has been a mentor for students who focused on vulnerability detection during the Google Summer of Code 2015 and 2017. He has published Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook and Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine, which cover practical tasks with Nmap and NSE development in depth. He loves attending information security conferences, and he has given talks and participated in workshops in dozens of events in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Curacao.