Download Top Free 10 Security Tools


Below top 10 Security Tools, and mostly available for free that you can download for your own purpose. Whether you are an IT Security Consultant, IT Auditor or even just newbie who interested in Security. This tools is must be used for your daily security activity. This list generated from very popular website sectools.org who provide top 100 best Security Tools and others reference such as junauza.com

  1. Nessus: Premier UNIX vulnerability assessment tool
  2. Wireshark : Sniffing the glue that holds the Internet together
  3. Snort : Everyone's favorite open source IDS
  4. Netcat : The network Swiss army knife
  5. Metasploit Framework : Hack the Planet
  6. Hping2 : A network probing utility like ping on steroids
  7. Kismet : A powerful wireless sniffer
  8. Tcpdump : The classic sniffer for network monitoring and data acquisition
  9. Cain and Abel : The top password recovery tool for Windows
  10. John the Ripper : A powerful, flexible, and fast multi-platform password hash cracker

Also another 10 top reference

  1. John the Ripper, John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool initially developed for the UNIX operating system
  2. Nmap, Nmap is my favorite network security scanner. It is used to discover computers and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network
  3. Nessus, Nessus is a comprehensive vulnerability scanning software. Its goal is to detect potential vulnerabilities on the tested systems
  4. chkrootkit, chkrootkit (Check Rootkit) is a common Unix-based program intended to help system administrators check their system for known rootkits
  5. Wireshark, Wireshark is a free packet sniffer computer application used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education
  6. netcat, netcat is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections on either TCP or UDP.
  7. Kismet, Kismet is a network detector, packet sniffer, and intrusion detection system for 802.11 wireless LANs. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring mode, and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic.
  8. hping, hping is a free packet generator and analyzer for the TCP/IP protocol. Hping is one of the de facto tools for security auditing and testing of firewalls and networks
  9. Snort, Snort is a free and open source Network Intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection (NIDS) capable of performing packet logging and real-time traffic analysis on IP networks
  10. tcpdump, tcpdump is a common computer network debugging tool that runs under the command line.

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