Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) in Action: Automate Real-World Vulnerability Discovery with Lua and Nmap on Kali Linux for Red Team and Blue Team Ops

Ever wished your network scans could run themselves, pinpointing critical vulnerabilities while you focus on strategy? What if you could harness the full power of Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) to automate real-world vulnerability discovery, from Lua script creation to hands-off CI/CD integration?

Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) in Action delivers exactly that. This book turns Nmap on Kali Linux into a programmable reconnaissance platform for both red team operators and blue team defenders. You'll learn how to craft and customize NSE modules in Lua, deploy them against vulnerable targets, and embed your scripts into automated pipelines, so every commit, every deploy, and every overnight sweep uncovers risk without manual effort.

Inside, you'll gain:

• Deep practical expertise in Lua fundamentals and Nmap's core libraries (nmap, shortport, http) for building scripts that detect CVEs, brute-force credentials, and enumerate web targets.

• Step-by-step labs using Metasploitable, DVWA, and WebGoat, guiding you from installation and lab setup to advanced exploit-style modules-safe for development, precise in production.

• Automation playbooks for parsing XML in Python or Go, integrating scans into GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins, and scheduling continuous jobs with Cron or Checkson.

• Operational tactics for stealth scanning, evasion, and blue team alerting-turning raw NSE output into real-time dashboards and PagerDuty alerts that spot high-impact findings before attackers do.

• Best practices for performance tuning, script versioning, and ethical guardrails, so your toolkit scales across thousands of hosts without becoming a liability.

Ready to elevate your network scanning and security workflows? Add Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) in Action to your arsenal and transform every scan into an automated, precision-driven vulnerability audit. Get your copy today and start scripting smarter security on Kali Linux!