Network Security Toolkit is a bootable ISO live CD and it's based on Fedora Linux.
The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms.
The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the network security administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 75 Security Tools by insecure.org are available in the toolkit.
What we find rather fascinating with NST is that we can transform most x86 systems (Pentium II and above) into a system designed for network traffic analysis, intrusion detection, network packet generation, wireless network monitoring, a virtual system service server, or a sophisticated network/host scanner.
This can all be done without disturbing or modifying any underlying sub-system disk. NST can be up and running on a typical x86 notebook in less than a minute by just rebooting with the NST ISO CD. The notebook's hard disk will not be altered in any way.
NST also makes an excellent tool to help one with all sorts of crash recovery troubleshooting scenarios and situations.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Major enhancements to the Network Interface Bandwidth Monitor application including a Threshold Pause feature with bandwidth rate state notifications.
· Developed a new NST WUI ARP Scan AJAX application which utilizes the arp-scan network tool. One can quickly scan and inventory each attached network segment throughout your network infrastructure and also perform additional security auditing on each discovered host. See the NST Wiki page: "HowTo Use The NST WUI arp-scan Page To Quickly Locate Hosts" for further information.
· Integrated the w3af (Web Application Attack and Audit Framework) into the NST distribution for searching and exploiting web application vulnerabilities.
· Added the netsniff-ng high performance Linux network analyzer and networking toolkit. It is featured in the NST Wiki article: LAN Ethernet Maximum Rates, Generation, Capturing & Monitoring.
· The NST WUI is now touch device friendly and now works well with the Apple iPad. See the NST Wiki article: HowTo Use A Touch Device (iPad) with NST.
· Developed many new systemd service controls and improved NST boot management with GRUB2 integration.
· Many new NST WUI enhancements and refinements including a new CPU usage monitor and DNS name resolver popup widget.
· As always, the networking and security applications included have been updated to their latest version which can be found in the manifest.
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