Automation of Nmap Scanning of Information Systems
Slavimir Stošović, Nikola Vukotić, Dušan M. Stefanović, Nikola Milutinović · 2024
One of the key factors in the security and protection of modern information systems involves the complete elimination or reduction to a minimum of the risk of compromising them through attacks by malicious actors. System vulnerabilities of hardware components, as the basic building blocks of information systems, represent the main “points of penetration” of hackers into the system. This paper describes the method of automating the scanning of information system components, by integrating the Nmap script vulners.nse into the PowerShell and Bash environments, to find and eliminate these weaknesses promptly. Newly created scripts will be automatically executed at defined time intervals, providing the administrator with information on the total number of detected vulnerabilities for which the exploitation method is known, and automatically generating an e-mail message with details of all detected flaws.