Friday, February 14, 2020

Tools for Testing & scanning

Open source:

  • OpenVAS: Vulnerability scanning tool. 
  • nmap: The network mapper, a good tool to scan ports etc.  
  • Nikto: Vulnerability scanner - Unix like command line tool 

Commercial: 


  • Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA): discontinued! Tool to determine security state by assessing missing security updates and less-secure. Security updates are determined by the current version of MBSA using the Windows Update Agent present on Windows computers since Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. 
  • Nessus: Vulnerability scanner. Nessus was open source before but no longer. 

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