Top 100 Network Security Tools

Nessus : Premier UNIX vulnerability assessment tool Wireshark : Sniffing the glue that holds the Internet together Snort : Everyone's favorite open source IDS Netcat : The network Swiss army knife Metasploit Framework : Hack the Planet Hping2 : A network probing utility like ping on steroids Kismet : A powerful wireless sniffer Tcpdump : The classic sniffer for network monitoring and data acquisition Cain and Abel : The top password recovery tool for Windows John the Ripper : A powerful, flexible, and fast multi-platform password hash cracker