OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR SECURITY ASSESSMENT
A.Sankara Narayanan, M. Mohamed Ashik · 2012
Abstract – Security assessments can mean different things to different people. This article discusses common security assessments with open source tools. Each tools of the paper will address a phase of the different levels of security assessments. The paper is written for security practitioners and pen testers, and of course, students who have interested in security assessment. So, it is concentrated on open source tools, and thereby, commercial products are not mentioned. It is used to validate the security of a network. We describe the number of open source tools and suggest mechanisms for applying these techniques. This paper examines the security assessment and shows that open source tools may more clearly and comprehensively meet the guidelines.