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View Poll Results: Network Security Application of the Year
Nmap Security Scanner
43 22.28%
Wireshark
47 24.35%
snort
5 2.59%
Nessus
3 1.55%
OpenVAS
5 2.59%
ClamAV
25 12.95%
tcpdump
12 6.22%
kismet
2 1.04%
fwBuilder
0 0%
Firestarter
17 8.81%
dsniff
1 0.52%
Guarddog
3 1.55%
psad
0 0%
p0f
0 0%
fail2ban
11 5.70%
Metasploit
6 3.11%
aircrack-ng
4 2.07%
Bro IDS
1 0.52%
Shorewall
8 4.15%
Nikto
0 0%
#1
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,110
Network Security Application of the Year
What's your favorite network-based security tool?
#2
Guru
Registered: May 2009
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Distribution: LMDE Gnome with Awesome WM + Kernel 3.3.0-1 amd64
Posts: 6,529
Hi,
#3
Member
Registered: Nov 2007
Location: Pakistan
Distribution: Redhat and Debian
Posts: 302
Rep:
nmap and tcpdump.
#4
Member
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: India, Pune
Distribution: Debian, Vector Linux, Slackware
Posts: 602
Rep:
Wireshark is easy to deal with.
#5
Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Slackware64 13.37
Posts: 4,021
Rep:
I manually use nmap and wireshark regularly - but clamav is always in the background doing its thing
#6
Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: 1 AU from a G2V star
Distribution: PCLinuxOS LXDE
Posts: 51
Rep:
Shorewall and zenmap(nmap)
#7
Member
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Hungary
Distribution: Debian Squeeze & Wheezy
Posts: 462
Rep:
Hi.
Last edited by pusrob; 01-03-2012 at 07:17 PM .
#8
Member
Registered: Oct 2011
Location: Earth
Distribution: Ubuntu, Fedora, Scientific Linux
Posts: 49
Rep:
I love wireshark, aircrack is used sometimes.
#9
Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: /proc/self/
Distribution: Custom version of Fedora 16, 64 bit, custom 3.2.7 kernel
Posts: 5,647
tcpdump all the way.....
#10
Member
Registered: Oct 2011
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 62
Rep:
Difficult
I use a lot of program in the poll options almost everything haha. Hmmm I think my vote is for Metasploit.
#11
Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Texas
Distribution: RHEL, Debian, FreeBSD
Posts: 3,740
Rep:
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.)
#12
Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Oak Cliff, TX
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 35
Rep:
Nmap. Nothing will ever replace the utility of a good ol' fashioned port scanner when it comes to analyzing the security of your network.
#13
Member
Registered: Sep 2007
Location: /root/
Distribution: Arch, CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, Slackware, Solaris, SuSE (Open & SLES)
Posts: 110
Rep:
fail2ban
#14
Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 218
Rep:
Agree, this category should be divided.
#15
Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: /proc/self/
Distribution: Custom version of Fedora 16, 64 bit, custom 3.2.7 kernel
Posts: 5,647
Quote:
Originally Posted by
LauMars
fail2ban
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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I use a lot of program in the poll options almost everything haha. Hmmm I think my vote is for Metasploit.
