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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(1) ★★★★ WinDbg (#113, new!)

WinDbg is a graphical debugger from Microsoft. It is actually just one component of the Debugging Tools for Windows package, which also includes the KD, CDB, and NTSD debuggers. Its claim to fame is debugging memory dumps produced after a crash. It can even debug in kernel mode. Read 1 review.

Latest release: version 10.0.10075.9 on April 29, 2015 (9 years ago).

no rating Wfuzz (#114, new!)

Wfuzz is a tool for bruteforcing Web Applications, it can be used for finding resources not linked (directories, servlets, scripts, etc), bruteforcing GET and POST parameters for different kinds of injections (SQL, XSS, LDAP, etc.), bruteforcing form parameters (user/password), fuzzing, and more. Review this tool.

Latest release: version 2.0 on Aug. 4, 2011 (12 years, 9 months ago).

(2) ★½ ArcSight SIEM platform (#115, new!)

ArcSight provides a suite of tools for SIEM—security information and event management. The best-known seems to be ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), described as the "brain" of the SIEM platform. It is a log analyzer and correlation engine designed to sift out important network events. The ESM itself is a standalone appliance, and the management programs run on Linux, Windows, AIX, and Solaris. For open-source alternatives see OSSEC HIDS and OSSIM. Read 2 reviews.

no rating SELinux (#118, new!)

Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a security enhancement to Linux implementing mandatory access control (MAC). Users and processes can be granted their least required privileges in a much more granular way than with traditional Unix access control. For example, you can define a policy to prevent your web browser from reading your SSH keys. The security model of SELinux has been ported to other operating systems; see SEBSD for FreeBSD and Project fmac for OpenSolaris. Read 1 review.

(1) ★★ EnCase (#120, new!)

EnCase is a suite of computer forensics software, commonly used by law enforcement. Its wide use has made it a de-facto standard in forensics. It is made to collect data from a computer in a forensically sound manner (employing checksums to help detect tampering). Read 2 reviews.

Latest release: version 7.10.05 on March 18, 2015 (9 years, 2 months ago).

(3) ★★★★ Wapiti (#121, new!)

Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications. It performs "black-box" scans; i.e., it does not study the source code of the application but will scans the webpages of the deployed webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets this list, Wapiti acts like a fuzzer, injecting payloads to see if a script is vulnerable. Read 4 reviews.

Latest release: version 2.2.1 on Dec. 29, 2009 (14 years, 4 months ago).

(1) ★★★★★ WebGoat (#122, new!)

WebGoat is a deliberately insecure J2EE web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons. In each lesson, users must demonstrate their understanding of a security issue by exploiting a real vulnerability in the WebGoat application. For example, in one of the lessons the user must use SQL injection to steal fake credit card numbers. The application is a realistic teaching environment, providing users with hints and code to further explain the lesson. Read 1 review.

Latest release: version 5.3 RC1 on Nov. 1, 2009 (14 years, 6 months ago).

(1) ★★★★★ HijackThis (#123, new!)

HijackThis inspects a computer’s browser and operating system settings to generate a log file of its current state. It can selectively remove unwanted settings and files. Its main focus is on web browser hijacking. It is a freeware utility originally written by Merijn Bellekom but now distributed by Trend Micro. Read 2 reviews.

Latest release: version 2.0.5 on May 18, 2013 (11 years ago).

no rating AIDE (#125, new!)

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a rootkit detector, a free replacement for Tripwire. It makes cryptographic hashes of important system files and stores them in a database. It can then make reports about which files have changed. Read 1 review.

Latest release: version 0.16a1 on Feb. 16, 2011 (13 years, 3 months ago).

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