Network Security Application of the Year
 

What's your favorite network-based security tool?

--jeremy

Hi,

Started installing OpenVAS this week as network security framework to test our stuff. My first baby steps in security.

Kind regards,

Eric

nmap and tcpdump.

Wireshark is easy to deal with.

I manually use nmap and wireshark regularly - but clamav is always in the background doing its thing

Shorewall and zenmap(nmap)

Hi.
I don't know if it is too late to say, but I miss denyhosts from the list (I know, it is only a script, but still). That is a great tool indeed, and deserves to be in the list, I think.

I love wireshark, aircrack is used sometimes.

tcpdump all the way.....

Difficult :D I use a lot of program in the poll options almost everything haha. Hmmm I think my vote is for Metasploit.

OT: this is a useful poll. Hadn't even heard of a couple of the applications that are listed as voting options. (It's a good day when I discover a promising new utility.)

Nmap. Nothing will ever replace the utility of a good ol' fashioned port scanner when it comes to analyzing the security of your network.

fail2ban

Stuff like nmap, wireshark, et al are just scanners. Where as daemons like fail2ban are essential preventive measures.

Agree, this category should be divided.

Correction - They are more than just scanners. You can do a lot more with them, but they are just publicly known as scanners.