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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(8) ★★★½ HP WebInspect (#76, 36)

WebInspect is a web application security assessment tool that helps identify known and unknown vulnerabilities within the Web application layer. It can also help check that a Web server is configured properly, and attempts common web attacks such as parameter injection, cross-site scripting, directory traversal, and more. It was produced by Spidynamics, which is now part of HP. Read 11 reviews.

Latest release: version 9.10 on June 27, 2011 (13 years, 5 months ago).

(1) ★★★★★ Wikto (#83, 1)

Wikto is a tool that checks for flaws in webservers. It provides much the same functionality as Nikto but adds various interesting pieces of functionality, such as a Back-End miner and close Google integration. Wikto is written for the MS .NET environment and registration is required to download the binary and/or source code. Read 1 review.

Latest release: version 2.1.0.0 on Dec. 14, 2008 (15 years, 11 months ago).

(3) ★★★★★ Samurai Web Testing Framework (#87, new!)

The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a live linux environment that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The CD contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites. Samurai includes many other tools featured in this list, such as WebScarab, ratproxy, w3af, Burp Suite, and BeEF. Read 5 reviews.

Latest release: version 3.3.2 on Jan. 22, 2016 (8 years, 10 months ago).

(4) ★★★★★ Firebug (#89, new!)

Firebug is an add-on for Firefox that provides access to browser internals. It features live editing of HTML and CSS, a DOM viewer, and a JavaScript debugger. Web application security testers appreciate the ability to see what's happening behind the scenes of the browser. Read 5 reviews.

Latest release: version 2.0.12 on Aug. 11, 2015 (9 years, 3 months ago).

no rating ratproxy (#96, new!)

Ratproxy is a semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool. It is meant to complement active crawlers and manual proxies more commonly used for this task, and is optimized specifically for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments. Review this tool.

Latest release: version 1.58 beta on May 1, 2009 (15 years, 6 months ago).

(4) ★★★★ Websecurify (#102, new!)

Websecurify is a powerful web application security testing environment designed from the ground up to provide the best combination of automatic and manual vulnerability testing technologies. Read 4 reviews.

Latest release: version 1.0.2 on Jan. 15, 2012 (12 years, 10 months ago).

no rating Grendel-Scan (#106, new!)

Grendel-Scan is an open-source web application security testing tool. It has automated testing module for detecting common web application vulnerabilities, and features geared at aiding manual penetration tests. Review this tool.

Latest release: version 1.1.

(1) ★★★★★ DirBuster (#112, new!)

DirBuster searches for hidden pages and directories on a web server. Sometimes developers will leave a page accessible, but unlinked; DirBuster is meant to find these potential vulnerabilities. This is a Java application developed by OWASP. Read 2 reviews.

Latest release: version 2.0-RC1 on March 3, 2009 (15 years, 8 months 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 (13 years, 3 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, 11 months ago).

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