In Kali Linux, Nmap can be started by navigating in the applications menu by clicking on Applications > Information Gathering > nmap like shown in the following image: You can even download the latest release from. Otherwise you can install it from package repositories by using apt-get install nmap or yum install nmap or similar commands depending on your Linux distro. If you are using Kali Linux, Nmap is already part of your arsenal. Nmap is the most famous and complete tool for network discovery and scanning: it is considered the “Swiss army knife” of network Security tools and it can be used to perform a large variety of tasks. Mapping targets is useful to model network infrastructure. This means that its purpose is not to find all possible informations about the targets (like open ports or vulnerabilities), but just to understand their logical location inside the network. Network discovery represents an important phase in the Information Gathering activity: it is the process of identifying live hosts on the network.
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