Network monitoring tools
| Network monitoring tools |
security tools for traffic analysis, active monitoring, port scanners and other tools to determine whether there is an anomaly on the network |
| Nmap | a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing |
| http://insecure.org/nmap/ |
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| Nagios |
web based tool that informs users of system or network activities and/or outages |
| http://www.nagios.org/ |
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| Nessus |
used for assessing the risks inherent in a company’s mission-critical devices and applications |
| http://www.nessus.org/ |
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| Ossim | complete network monitoring system including real-time graphs on bandwidth usage and user participation, policy restrictions, and implementations of various popular network tools including Nessus, Nagios and more. |
| http://www.ossim.net/ |
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| Wireshark | Powerful tool for capturing network protocol data for analysis. Contains more than 25 methods for reading packets, making it useful for a wide array of networks |
| http://www.wireshark.org/ |