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Network Security Toolkit distri aids network security admins

linux.com — Network Security Toolkit is one of many live CD Linux distributions focusing on network monitoring, analysis, and security. NST was designed to give network security administrators easy access to a comprehensive set of open source network applications, many of which are among the top 100 security tools recommended by insecure.org.

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  • evillawngnome, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2FTA:
    "Among the network penetration testing and analysis tools included here are Kismet, Snort, AirSnort, NMAP, and Wireshark. Nessus, a popular vulnerability scanner, which is not included on the latest BackTrack release (BT3) is included in this distribution. Network monitoring tools like Nagios, Argus, and Zabbix are also included to help you keep an eye on your network's health. In addition to its network administration tools, the distribution hosts applications for email (Pooka), chat (Pidgin), Web browsing (Firefox), text and graphics editing and processing (ImageMagick, XPDF, Nedit, and others), antivirus (ClamAV), terminal communications (GTKterm, Minicom), remote desktop (VNC, TSClient), and data recovery (cfdisk, Partition Image). I was surprised to find that this distribution includes the free GPS navigation program GPSDrive. Both MySQL and PostgreSQL databases are both included, and, if you need an email server, so is Sendmail. "

    A great LiveCD to keep in your laptop bag / glovebox, and a great distro for the rack console.
  • jamesmcm, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2Is it better than BackTrack overall?
  • evillawngnome, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1why?
    Justify or be dugg down as a troll.
  • Justice101, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1I liked PHLAK, as my distro of choice for awhile.
  • evillawngnome, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1According to the article, there's more in this distro. The article also talks about which tools are on the disc, and what they're for. It's a pretty interesting read, but i'd love to see someone do a side by side comparison.
  • depro9, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1back track ftw

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