ARTICLE Security-Database Best IT Security Tools for 2009

Thursday 31 December 2009 - 13811 read

The year 2009 was very intense of emotions, sadness, sorrows, and conflicts. The world as we knew or at least our parents did is changing so fast and unfortunately not in the right way.

The very bad economic situation, the stinky religions conflicts, the riots and wars, the increase of radical extremists and the policy of fear that the governments feed us are urging this earth to an excruciating end.

But instead of talking about politicians and their immature and childish job they are doing as spreading fear, making the wrong choices (as usual), wasting taxpayers money and time, dumping people into poverty, we’d prefer focusing into enumerating the great software and tools we’ve seen this year.

So, we are happy that 2009 is finally over and we expect the best for 2010.

— Security-Database Team


 Open Source & Free Utilities

Penetration Tests and Ethical Hacking

- Winner Excellent Recommended (Promising)
Information Gathering Maltego Binging
Network Scanners and Discovery Nmap v5 Ex æquo:
  • Netifera
  • AutoScan
Angry IP Scanner
Vulnerability Scanners Ex æquo:
  • Nessus
  • NeXpose
OpenVAS
Application Scanners W3AF Samurai WTF Nikto
Wireless Hacking OSWA AirCrack suite AiroScript-NG
Live CDs BackTrack 4 Katana Matriux
Exploitation Frameworks Metasploit v3 DB Exploit Website

Security Assessment

- Winner Excellent Recommended (Promising)
Windows Auditing OVAL interpreter Nessus Local Plug-ins Sysinternals tools
Unix Auditing Lynis CIS Scoring OpenSCAP
Firewall & Filtering Devices None None None
Application Assessment BurpSuite WebSecurify CAT The manual web application
Wireless Auditing OSWA Ex æquo:
  • Kismet
  • Kismac
Inssider
Forensics CAINE Ex æquo:
  • Mobius
  • Process Hacker
Netwitness Free Edition
Datamining / logs management Splunk community release Dradis
IT Management SpiceWorks Paglo IT
Code analysis Rats Graudit MS CAT.net
Password analysis Ex æquo:
  • Cain & Abel
  • OphCrack
John the ripper
VoIP & Telephony auditing VAST Viper WarVox
Database auditing Db Audit Free edition Ex æquo:
  • Pangolin
  • SQL Map
Wapiti


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Winner Excellent Promising