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We’re always looking for ways to make improvements to the Syntinul platform and build on the functionality it currently offers. One of the features we’ve been developing is the Syntinul API and webhooks, which is now available on all subscription plans. This initial release provides API and webhook functionality that are the most important to our customers. We’ll be adding more API endpoints and webhook events as we get feedback from users.

A common misconception is that Nmap is an inherently slow network scanner that isn’t suited for scanning large numbers of targets or ranges of ports. For this reason, some people jump straight to scanners such as Unicornscan, ZMap, RustScan and others for their alleged faster scanning capabilities, without necessarily understanding why Nmap is running slow, or why the alternatives are faster. In this article we’ll learn that it is absolutely possible to tune Nmap scans to run just as fast, but also why we have to be careful before doing so.

In previous blog posts we covered what port scanning is, why it’s important, and the technical details around how it works. Building on from this, we can now go into the specifics of how to use Nmap (the most widely used network scanner out there) in order to perform accurate port scans of our assets.

In a previous blog post, we detailed what port scanning is and why it’s important. The article provided an introduction to the topic without going into much technical detail, and is a good starting point for those unfamiliar with the subject. Having covered the non-technical, general overview, this article will fill in some of the technical details for those who want to have a more in-depth understanding of how exactly port scanning works.

It’s common for organisations to have services exposed to the internet. This could include a web server hosting our company website, email servers for our corporate email, or VPN gateways enabling remote workers secure access to the corporate network. We will typically want to use port scanning as a way to discover and audit these exposures – but what exactly is port scanning?