Performance Evaluation and Analysis of various Network Security tools
K Sinchana, C Sinchana, Harinahalli Lokesh Gururaj, Sunil Kumar B R · 2019
With the developments in the internet and the rise of ecommerce applications and social networks, there is a lot of data generated daily. Thus, the transmission of this data safely through the web is an issue. Also, network security is gaining a greater importance as more and more people are moving towards the age of digital information. As the number of users increase, the cyber-attacks are becoming critical. There are various network security tools which deal with a lot of functions in contributing to the security of network. These network security tools help in finding the vulnerabilities in a website or a web application, to secure wi-fi networks, to crack passwords, to ensure message encryption etc. This paper describes some of such tools, which deal with vulnerability check in a website, wi-fi security, network scanning, network or protocol analyzing.