Network Security Toolkit
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{{Infobox software
| name = Network Security Toolkit
| logo =
| screenshot = Nst-screen-npc.png
| caption = NST WUI: Multi-Tap Network Packet Capture
| developer =Ronald W. Henderson
Paul Blankenbaker
| released = {{release year|2003}}
| latest release version = 40-13973
| latest release date = {{release date and age|2024|05|12}}
| programming language = HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, Bash, PHP, Java, Perl, Python, XML, XSLT, SVG, C, C++, Expect, Unix Utilities
| operating system = Linux
| license = GNU General Public License 2.0 (GPLv2)
| website = {{URL|networksecuritytoolkit.org}}
}}
Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a Linux-based Live DVD/USB Flash Drive that provides a set of free and open-source computer security and networking tools to perform routine security and networking diagnostic and monitoring tasks. The distribution can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on servers hosting virtual machines. The majority of tools published in the article "Top 125 security tools" by Insecure.org are available in the toolkit. NST has package management capabilities similar to Fedora and maintains its own repository of additional packages.
Features
Many tasks that can be performed within NST are available through a web interface called NST WUI.{{Cite web |title=Network Security Toolkit (NST 40) |url=https://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/index.html |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=www.networksecuritytoolkit.org}} Among the tools that can be used through this interface are nmap with the vizualization tool ZenMap, ntop, a Network Interface Bandwidth Monitor, a Network Segment ARP Scanner, a session manager for VNC, a minicom-based terminal server, serial port monitoring, and WPA PSK management.
Other features include visualization of ntopng, ntop, wireshark, traceroute, NetFlow and kismet data by geolocating the host addresses, IPv4 Address conversation, traceroute data and wireless access points and displaying them via Google Earth or a Mercator World Map bit image, a browser-based packet capture and protocol analysis system capable of monitoring up to four network interfaces using Wireshark, as well as a Snort-based intrusion detection system with a "collector" backend that stores incidents in a MySQL database.{{Cite web |title=Snort (NST v1.2.1 and Above) |url=https://networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/docs/user/ch03s05.html |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=networksecuritytoolkit.org}} For web developers, there is also a JavaScript console with a built-in object library with functions that aid the development of dynamic web pages.
= Host Geolocations =
The following example ntop host geolocation images were generated by NST.
= Network Monitors =
See also
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite book |last=Smith |first=Jesse |title=Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 32-11992 |publisher= DistroWatch |date=2020-06-07 |url= https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=nst}}
External links
- {{official website|http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/}}
- [http://sourceforge.net/projects/nst NST at SourceForge]
- [http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nstpro/geolocate-matrix.html Network Security Geolocation Matrix]
{{Linux distributions}}
Category:Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
Category:Linux security software
Category:Free network management software