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Testing Security Controls and Detecting Vulnerabilities with Nmap 7

This course will help you will learn how to leverage the capabilities of Nmap to find insecure applications and explore the weaknesses in your organization’s firewalls.

Intermediate
1h 38m
(32)

Created by Matt Glass

Last Updated Jul 31, 2025

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Testing Security Controls and Detecting Vulnerabilities with Nmap 7

This course will help you will learn how to leverage the capabilities of Nmap to find insecure applications and explore the weaknesses in your organization’s firewalls.

Intermediate
1h 38m
(32)

Created by Matt Glass

Last Updated Jul 31, 2025

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What you'll learn

Testing network security controls and discovering vulnerabilities are important parts of any organizations security plan. In this course, Testing Security Controls and Detecting Vulnerabilities with Nmap 7, you will learn how to do just that. First, you will learn how Nmap conducts host discovery. Next, you will see how to perform port scans. Finally, you will learn how Nmap detects applications and operating systems. After finishing this course, you will know how to leverage the capabilities of Nmap to find insecure applications and explore the weaknesses in your organization’s network security devices.

Testing Security Controls and Detecting Vulnerabilities with Nmap 7
Intermediate
1h 38m
(32)
Table of contents

  • Version Check | 15s
  • Overview | 2m 53s
  • Demo | 1m 44s
  • Summary | 29s

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Matt Glass - Pluralsight course - Testing Security Controls and Detecting Vulnerabilities with Nmap 7
Matt Glass
32 courses 4.6 author rating 378 ratings

Matt Glass is an IT Project Manager in Stuttgart, Germany, working as a government contractor. He has more than 12 years of IT experience in a variety of roles.

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