Preface

Digitization rules the tech world, and so it’s important for organizations to design security mechanisms for their network infrastructures. Analyzing vulnerabilities is one of the best ways to secure your network infrastructure. This learning path begins by introducing you to the various concepts of network security assessment, workflows, and architectures. You will use open source tools to perform both active and passive network scanning and use these results to analyze and design a threat model for network security. With a firm understanding of the basics, you will learn to scan your network for vulnerabilities and open ports and use them as back doors into a network with the top tools of network scanning: Nessus and Nmap. As you progress through the chapters, you will learn how to carry out various key scanning tasks, such as firewall detection, OS detection, and access management to detect vulnerabilities in your network. By the end of this learning path, you will be familiar with the tools for network scanning and the techniques for vulnerability scanning and network protection.

This learning path includes content from the following Packt products:

• Network Scanning Cookbook by Sairam Jetty
• Network Vulnerability Assessment by Sagar Rahalkar