SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools

For more than a decade, the Nmap Project has been cataloguing the network security community's favorite tools. In 2011 this site became much more dynamic, offering ratings, reviews, searching, sorting, and a new tool suggestion form. This site allows open source and commercial tools on any platform, except those tools that we maintain (such as the Nmap Security Scanner, Ncat network connector, and Nping packet manipulator).

We're very impressed by the collective smarts of the security community and we highly recommend reading the whole list and investigating any tools you are unfamiliar with. Click any tool name for more details on that particular application, including the chance to read (and write) reviews. Many site elements are explained by tool tips if you hover your mouse over them. Enjoy!

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(57) ★★★★★ Social Engineer Toolkit (#58, new!)

The Social Engineer Toolkit incorporates many useful social-engineering attacks all in one interface. The main purpose of SET is to automate and improve on many of the social-engineering attacks out there. It can automatically generate exploit-hiding web pages or email messages, and can use Metasploit payloads to, for example, connect back with a shell once the page is opened. Read 74 reviews.

(4) ★★★★★ Fiddler (#60, new!)

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language. Read 4 reviews.

Latest release: version 4.5.1.5 on July 23, 2015 (9 years, 4 months ago).

(2) ★★★★ sslstrip (#61, new!)

sslstrip is an SSL stripping proxy, designed to make unencrypted HTTP sessions look as much as possible like HTTPS sessions. It converts https links to http or to https with a known private key. It even provides a padlock favicon for the illusion of a secure channel. Many HTTPS sites are normally accessed from a redirect on an HTTP page, and many users don't notice when their connection isn't upgraded. Read 2 reviews.

Latest release: version 0.7 on Dec. 18, 2009 (14 years, 11 months ago).

(6) ★★★★½ Splunk (#65, new!)

Splunk is a tool to search, report, monitor and analyze real-time streaming and historical IT data. It collects logs from a variety of sources and makes them searchable in a unified interface. Read 6 reviews.

Latest release: version 4.1.7 on Feb. 14, 2011 (13 years, 9 months ago).

(2) ★★★½ NetWitness NextGen (#67, new!)

NetWitness NextGen is a network security monitor. The heart of the monitor is the Decoder subsystem that records network traffic for analysis. The Investigator is a protocol analyzer meant to be run on captured traffic. Read 2 reviews.

Latest release: version 9.0.5.4 on March 17, 2010 (14 years, 8 months ago).

(6) ★★★★½ Secunia PSI (#68, new!)

Secunia PSI (Personal Software Inspector) is a free security tool designed to detect vulnerable and out-dated programs and plug-ins that expose your PC to attacks. Attacks exploiting vulnerable programs and plug-ins are rarely blocked by traditional anti-virus programs. Secunia PSI checks only the machine it is running on, while its commercial sibling Secunia CSI (Corporate Software Inspector) scans multiple machines on a network. Read 6 reviews.

Latest release: version 2.0 on Jan. 10, 2011 (13 years, 10 months ago).

(4) ★★★½ Immunity Debugger (#70, new!)

Immunity Debugger is a debugger whose design reflects the need to write exploits, analyze malware, and reverse engineer binary files. It builds on a solid user interface with function graphing, the industry's first heap analysis tool built specifically for heap creation, and a large and well supported Python API for easy extensibility. Read 6 reviews.

Latest release: version 1.80 on Dec. 6, 2010 (13 years, 11 months ago).

no rating sqlninja (#72, new!)

sqlininja exploits web applications that use Microsoft SQL Server as a database backend. Its focus is on getting a running shell on the remote host. sqlninja doesn't find an SQL injection in the first place, but automates the exploitation process once one has been discovered. Review this tool.

Latest release: version 0.2.6-r1 on April 29, 2012 (12 years, 6 months ago).

(6) ★★★★★ Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (#74, new!)

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is a malware scanner for Windows. The authors claim to use a variety of technologies to find malware undetectable by other malware scanners. There is a free trial with limited options and a supported full version with the ability to run scheduled scans. Read 7 reviews.

Latest release: version 2.1.8.1057 on June 29, 2015 (9 years, 4 months ago).

(5) ★★★★★ Netsparker (#75, new!)

Netsparker is a web application security scanner, with support for both detection and exploitation of vulnerabilities. It aims to be false positive–free by only reporting confirmed vulnerabilities after successfully exploiting or otherwise testing them. Read 6 reviews.

Latest release: version 1.8.3.3 on Feb. 10, 2011 (13 years, 9 months ago).

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