Network Security Toolkit
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| Network Security Toolkit | |
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 NST WUI: Multi-Tap Network Packet Capture |
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| Developed by | Ronald W. Henderson, Paul K. Blankenbaker |
| Initial release | 2003, 4–5 years ago |
| Latest release | 1.8.0 / 2008-06-28 |
| Written in | HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, Bash, PHP, Java, Perl, Python, XML, XSL, C, C++, Expect, Unix Utilities |
| OS | Linux (Fedora Based) |
| Available in | English |
| Development status | Active |
| License | Various |
| Website | NST Home Page |
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[edit] Overview
The Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a Linux Distribution Live CD/DVD that provides the Network Security Administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source security and networking tools to quickly perform routine security and networking diagnostic and monitoring tasks within the enterprise network computing environment.
The majority of tools published in the article: "Top 100 Security Tools" by Insecure.Org are available in the toolkit. The distribution can be downloaded from SourceForge.net as a live CD/DVD ISO or as a VMware Virtual Machine.
[edit] Featured applications
- NST WUI - A Web User Interface (WUI) for system administration, navigation and configuration automation for many network and security applications found within the NST distribution.
- Multi-Tap Network Packet Capture - A Wireshark based network protocol analyzer implementation for simultaneous packet capture on up to 4 network interfaces.
- Network Packet Capture Management & Status - A web-based implementation to manage a large number of network packet captures that can be generated by either the NST WUI "Single-Tap Network Packet Capture" or the "Multi-Tap Network Packet Capture" interface.
- Virtual Network Computing (VNC) Server Session Manager - An NST WUI interface and utility (nstvncadmin) for the creation and management of a large number of virtual NST desktops.
- WPA-PSK Wireless Configuration - An NST WUI interface to quickly Setup and Configure a secure wireless connection.
[edit] Developer tools
- NST JavaScript Console - An interactive interface and library of JavaScript objects, functions, methods and properties design to help software engineers diagnose and develop JavaScript Code for building dynamic web pages.
[edit] NST Wiki
A NST Wiki Site exists for users to ask questions, share experiences, and offer advice in regards to the use of the NST distribution and the tools which it contains.
