Tracking down weak points in your intranet
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The developers of Kali Linux [1] deliver a considerable number of tools for the task of identifying weak points in your network. Among these, Nmap [2] and OpenVAS [3] are the most important.
Nmap
Nmap provides basic information about the network, and it can check connected systems for weak points with scripts that are implemented by its scripting engine. The software comes with scripts for a wide variety of many well-known shortcomings. Entering the name of the script starts a test of the system. You will find these ready-to-use test routines in the subdirectory /usr/share/nmap/scripts/ . More than a hundred such scripts are located here that are capable of checking the internals of all services imaginable. The basic command invocation is:
$ nmap --script=Name Target-IP
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