Sam Spade is one of the oldest network security tools around in terms of a neat package containing a lot of stuff you need, it’s one of the first things I used when I got into information security and I was on a crusade against spammers and scammers.
It has all kinds of useful tools in [...]
Nipper performs security audits of network device configuration files. The report produced by Nipper includes; detailed security-related issues with recommendations, a configuration report and various appendices. Nipper has a large number of configuration options which are described on this page.
Nipper currently supports the following device types:
Cisco Switches (IOS)
Cisco Routers (IOS)
Cisco Firewalls [...]
Another tool for the security side, good for forensics, monitoring and auditing.
Argus is a fixed-model Real Time Flow Monitor designed to track and report on the status and performance of all network transactions seen in a data network traffic stream. Argus provides a common data format for reporting flow metrics such as connectivity, capacity, demand, [...]
