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Tenable Network Security: Proprietary; GPL (2.2.11 and earlier) Vulnerability scanner: Nmap: terminal application GPL v2: computer security, network management: Free OpenVAS: GPL: Nikto Web Scanner: GPL: SQLmap: Wireshark: Riverbed Technology (sponsor) desktop application GPL2: Network sniffing, traffic analysis
BeyondTrust was founded in 2006 and provided Least Privilege Management software for the Microsoft Windows OS, before UNIX vendor Symark acquired BeyondTrust in 2009. [1] [2] In 2018, the company was acquired by Bomgar, a developer of remote support and PAM software. [3] In both cases, BeyondTrust was adopted as the new company name. [4] [5]
OpenVAS was originally proposed by pentesters at SecuritySpace, [4] discussed with pentesters at Portcullis Computer Security [5] and then announced [6] by Tim Brown on Slashdot. Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is a member project of Software in the Public Interest .
The Treasury Department said it was alerted to the breach by BeyondTrust on Dec. 8 and that it was working with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI to assess the ...
With help and contributions of the computer security community, development continued. Enhancements included operating system fingerprinting, service fingerprinting, [11] code rewrites (C to C++), additional scan types, protocol support (e.g. IPv6, SCTP [24]) and new programs that complement Nmap's core features. Major releases include: [20]
The SAINT (Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool) network vulnerability scanner was based on SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks) which was developed by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema and released in 1995. SAINT Corporation (formerly World Wide Digital Security, Inc. (WWDSI)) continued development and released ...
Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a Linux-based Live DVD/USB Flash Drive that provides a set of free and open-source computer security and networking tools to perform routine security and networking diagnostic and monitoring tasks.
In earlier versions of Nessus, a binary called nasl or nasl.exe was provided that could interpret NASL code to perform vulnerability scans. In later versions of Nessus, this should be done via an API that is provided by this software. An example of executing a NASL plugin 'myzeroday.nasl' on Windows, a command such as the following could be ...