Network Defense, Discovery And Mapping Tools

When an attacker comes a calling, you have to send them packing. Here's how you can do that!

Attacks on a network can come from various avenues and it is your job to ensure that your network is well defended against them. But how can you be prepared before hand? Here are the tools that help you when the crackers start their march on your network

Network Defense Tools: Securing your IT network is becoming more and more important every day now. As a penetration tester, your job is not only to ensure that you keep your networks free of vulnerabilities, you also have to ensure that the network is well defended against attacks. These are the tools that will help you in doing so.

1. DataSoft Nova

2. Fierce Domain Scan

3. Hping

4. Wireshark

5. Kismet

6. Ettercap

7. Xplico

8. Evader

9. Nmap

10. Network Security Toolkit

Network Discovery and Mapping: Network discovery and mapping is also a part of a penetration tester's job profile. While many say that with the modern tools that are available, this is an easy task, it is far from being so. A penetration tester has to master a number of tools in order to ensure that he can handle a variety of networks. Here are the best in the genre of network discovery and mapping. Note that Nmap is a tool that is applicable for both the purposes.

1. Open-AudIT

2. NetSurveyor

3. Advanced IP Scanner

4. Fing

5. Spiceworks Network Mapping

6. Cheops-ng

7. Open NMS

8. NetworkView

9. Angry IP Scanner