topic Re: Security Penetration software in Insight Remote Security

Security Penetration software

Jorge Cocomess — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:04:18 GMT

Greetings,

Is there a free light version of security can penetration tests against your network and find security holes?

Thank you in advance.

Jorge

Re: Security Penetration software

Rasheed Tamton — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:55:47 GMT

Hi Jorge,

Nessus is a good tool.

You can download and test it free.
http://www.nessus.org/

It will find the OS related vulnerablities as well as the network vulnerabilities.

They will update the baseline file with latest vulnerabilities very frequently and it is easy to use. It has lot of plugins also.

Regards,
Rasheed Tamton.

Re: Security Penetration software

Fred K. Abell Jr._1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:17:46 GMT

Jorge,

Yes, Nessus is a good scanner, but not for actual penetration. Are you scanning Microsoft or UNIX?

Cain and Abel are good to try against MS.

Use Metasploit against any vulnerabilities you find with Nessus.

Want to test web applications? Check out www.owasp.org.

Fred

Re: Security Penetration software

Fred K. Abell Jr._1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:19:24 GMT

And another one using python, fasttrack. It uses metasploit and other open source items. Read about it here:

http://www.securestate.com/Pages/Fast-Track.aspx

Fred