{"id":71,"date":"2006-07-05T10:46:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=71"},"modified":"2015-02-10T12:12:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T20:12:17","slug":"top-100-network-security-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/top-100-network-security-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Network Security Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"entrylink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insecure.org\/\">Insecure.org<\/a> has released a 2006 survey of 3,243 people (users from the <a class=\"entrylink\" href=\"http:\/\/seclists.org\/#nmap-hackers\">nmap-hackers<\/a> mailing list) about their favorite security tools. The tools include open source as well as commercial products on any platform. The last survey was done by insecure.org in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The tools are broken down by various attributes, as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/top100sectools.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/top100sectools.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\/\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nessus, Wireshark and Snort took the top three spots. Check out the rest of the list <a class=\"entrylink\" href=\"http:\/\/sectools.org\/\">here<\/a>. While some tools on the list, such as Google (which was #34) and VMware (#89 on the list) are not really security tools, they were still listed by the users because in case of Google, they use it as a resource for security information and because Google can also be used for hacking. VMware is used as a tool to test code and exploits on various platforms. 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