Active Scanning & Enumeration

You've got your lab running. Now let's use it. In this session, we pick up where the home lab series left off — you've got your VMs, your network is segmented, and tonight we're scanning.

🎯 What We'll Cover
- Nmap fundamentals — discovery, version detection, OS fingerprinting
- Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) — 600+ scripts, the ones you actually use
- SMB enumeration with enum4linux and crackmapexec
- Banner grabbing with netcat and curl
- Documenting your attack surface before you exploit anything

🔍 Odapeeka Connection: Before the ransomware hit Odapeeka State University, the attacker spent hours doing exactly this. We'll walk through what that scan looked like — and what Security Onion caught (and missed). This session is a natural on-ramp to Cover6: First Watch.

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