From the course: Performing a Technical Security Audit and Assessment

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Network ports and services discovery tool demo

Network ports and services discovery tool demo

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Network ports and services discovery tool demo

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- [Voiceover] Let's look at an example of a tool that can help identify ports and services on network devices. We'll go back to Sparta, which we used in the network discovery video. Sparta can run an nmap scan on all 6,535 ports for any device on the network. Instead of running the full scan on all those ports at once though, it breaks the scan into stages. This way, an assessor can start looking at the results as they come in, instead of waiting until the end of the entire scan. Before we start the scan, let's look at which ports Sparta scans in each stage, by looking at the Sparta dot conf file, which is in the user, share, Sparta folder. I'll go to the user, share, Sparta folder and double click on Sparta dot conf. Here we can see there are five nmap stages in the staged nmap settings section. The most common ports are scanned in the early stages, including http, port 80, and https, in stage one. Sntp, port 25, various data ports, ports 1 4 3 3, 3 3 0 6, 5 4 3 2, and Microsoft…

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