Tools for Network Operators
- 01. Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
- 02. Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing.
- 03. The Infection Monkey is an open-source breach and attack simulation (BAS) platform that helps you validate existing controls and identify how attackers might exploit your current network security gaps.
- 04. iPerf3 is a tool for active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks.
- 05. fprobe - libpcap-based tool that collect network traffic data and emit it as NetFlow flows towards the specified collector.
- 06. Cacti provides a robust and extensible operational monitoring and fault management framework for users around the world
- 07. Snort 3 is a sweeping upgrade featuring improvements and new features resulting in enhanced performance, faster processing, improved scalability for your network
- 08. Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.
- 09. OpenNMS Horizon is an open source solution that helps you visualize and monitor everything on your local and remote networks.
- 10. SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss.
- 11. DBot was designed for enabling easy access to advanced security information for security professionals using Slack
- 12. The Senzing tool is somewhat peripheral to networking and security, but is useful enough in certain situations.