Scanning, information gathering and enumeration is one of the most important tasks in a penetration test. In the scanning and information gathering section you will be learning about mapping networks, run ports cans, enumerate publicly available sources such as whois and social media, automated vulnerability scanners and a lot more . We will be using Nmap to determine open ports, running services and the operating system. You will also learn how to use the NMap scripting engine (NSE) for vulnerability scanning and enumeration.