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This book titled “Security Auditing with NMAP” is primarily intends to provide a comprehensive view about the process of security auditing, importance, need, types, auditing standards and procedures for auditing. The main objective of this book is to analyse various security risks in a network and perform auditing methods that help to protect critical data, identify security loopholes, create new security policies and track the effectiveness of security strategies. This book further focuses on an open-source utility tool for network discovery and security auditing, called NMAP. NMAP is one of the important tools in Kali Linux platform for information security tasks. It uses IP packets to determine the hosts available on a network and their services, operating systems and versions, types of packet filters, firewalls and so on. This book facilitates the user to audit the network with various commands and allows a large number of scanning techniques, such as UDP, TCP connect (), TCP SYN (half-open), and FTP. It also offers a wide variety of scan types, including Proxy (bounce attack), ICMP (ping sweep), FIN, ACK sweep, SYN sweep, IP Protocol, and Null scan. It is a useful learning material for students and working professionals who would like to start their career in cyber security audit domain.
Padmavathi Ganapathi
Author
Padmavathi Ganapathi
Dr. Padmavathi Ganapathi is the Dean-School of Physical Sciences and Computational Sciences and Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (Deemed to be University), Coimbatore, India. She has more than 33 years of teaching experience and 25 years of research experience. Her areas of interest include, Cyber Security, Wireless Communication and Real Time Systems. She has executed funded projects worth 267.368 lakhs Sponsored by AICTE, UGC, DRDO and DST. She has supervised 22 scholars at Ph. D level. She has more than 200 publications in prestigious conferences and peer-reviewed journals. She is the life members of various professional bodies like CSI, ISTE, ISCA, WSEAS, AACE and AICW. She is reviewers for many IEEE Conferences and Journals. She has visited many countries for technical deliberations. She is the Course Co-ordinator for SWAYAM-MOOC on Cyber Security. So far, more than 71, 000 learners have enrolled for various sessions and benefitted.
Co-author
Dr. D. Nethra Pingala Suthishni
She is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (Deemed to be University), Coimbatore, India. She has more than 7 years of teaching and research experience. Her areas of Interest include, Cyber Security, Network Security and Soft Computing.
