NMAP + Perl > case of the Mondays

SANS diary had a neat little trick posted a couple weeks back. For those of you who use NMAP quite a bit or as part of their day to day at work, here's a tip that might help make your work week a bit more bearable. You are aware of the XML output from NMAP but what the heck do you do with it? Perl has a module that just might help you out called NMAP::Parser. This might make your job analyzing or reacting to your findings a bit easier. If you still aren't 100% clear on how you might use it, here is more information along with an example.