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View Poll Results: Network Security Application of the Year
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Nmap Security Scanner
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43 |
22.28% |
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Wireshark
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47 |
24.35% |
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snort
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5 |
2.59% |
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Nessus
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3 |
1.55% |
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OpenVAS
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5 |
2.59% |
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ClamAV
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25 |
12.95% |
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tcpdump
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12 |
6.22% |
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kismet
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2 |
1.04% |
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fwBuilder
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0 |
0% |
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Firestarter
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17 |
8.81% |
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dsniff
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1 |
0.52% |
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Guarddog
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3 |
1.55% |
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psad
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0 |
0% |
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p0f
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0 |
0% |
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fail2ban
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11 |
5.70% |
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Metasploit
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6 |
3.11% |
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aircrack-ng
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4 |
2.07% |
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Bro IDS
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1 |
0.52% |
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Shorewall
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8 |
4.15% |
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Nikto
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0 |
0% |
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12-21-2011, 04:03 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,588
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Network Security Application of the Year
What's your favorite network-based security tool?
--jeremy
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12-31-2011, 08:38 AM
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#2
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Guru
Registered: May 2009
Location: Gibraltar, Gibraltar
Distribution: Fedora 18 with Awesome WM
Posts: 6,805
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Hi,
Started installing OpenVAS this week as network security framework to test our stuff. My first baby steps in security.
Kind regards,
Eric
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12-31-2011, 11:52 AM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2007
Location: Pakistan
Distribution: Redhat and Debian
Posts: 302
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nmap and tcpdump.
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12-31-2011, 01:26 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: India
Distribution: Slackware (mainly) and then a lot of others...
Posts: 833
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Wireshark is easy to deal with.
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12-31-2011, 02:51 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Slackware64 13.37
Posts: 4,089
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I manually use nmap and wireshark regularly - but clamav is always in the background doing its thing
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01-02-2012, 11:02 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: 1 AU from a G2V star
Distribution: PCLinuxOS LXDE
Posts: 65
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Shorewall and zenmap(nmap)
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01-03-2012, 07:15 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2006
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 462
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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.
Last edited by pusrob; 01-03-2012 at 07:17 PM.
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01-03-2012, 07:55 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2011
Location: Nepal
Distribution: RHEL, Ubuntu
Posts: 86
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I love wireshark, aircrack is used sometimes.
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01-03-2012, 08:32 PM
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Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: /dev/null
Distribution: technixOS
Posts: 5,723
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tcpdump all the way.....
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01-03-2012, 08:48 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2011
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 66
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Difficult  I use a lot of program in the poll options almost everything haha. Hmmm I think my vote is for Metasploit. |
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01-03-2012, 09:25 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Texas
Distribution: RHEL, Debian, FreeBSD, Ubuntu (desktop)
Posts: 3,859
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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.)
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01-03-2012, 10:54 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Oak Cliff, TX
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 35
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Nmap. Nothing will ever replace the utility of a good ol' fashioned port scanner when it comes to analyzing the security of your network.
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01-12-2012, 08:31 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2007
Location: /root/
Distribution: Arch, CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, Slackware, Solaris, SuSE (Open & SLES)
Posts: 115
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fail2ban
Stuff like nmap, wireshark, et al are just scanners. Where as daemons like fail2ban are essential preventive measures.
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01-16-2012, 05:05 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: In front of the monitor
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 310
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Agree, this category should be divided.
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01-16-2012, 06:11 AM
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Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: /dev/null
Distribution: technixOS
Posts: 5,723
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LauMars
fail2ban
Stuff like nmap, wireshark, et al are just scanners. Where as daemons like fail2ban are essential preventive measures.
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Correction - They are more than just scanners. You can do a lot more with them, but they are just publicly known as scanners. |
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