Nsauditor: Network Security Audit and Remote Network Monitoring
April 14, 2006 (PRLEAP.COM) Technology News
We live in an ever changing world. One constant has been the increasing threat of viruses and other forms of Malicious Software both created and propagated over the Internet. Email, for example, has become an indispensable tool for most of today's businesses but it's use can open your computing infrastructure up to an unlimited number of threats on a daily basis. Email and hacking attempts are just the tip of the iceberg. The Computer Security Institute (CSI) in San Francisco estimates that between 60 and 80 percent of network misuse comes from inside the enterprises network. Computing security is not just a set of locked doors and passwords. A truly secure environment is an ever changing entity which requires constant care and monitoring.
Conducting a network security audit isn't very easy the first time you do it. You've got to either purchase a commercial audit package and learn how it works or assemble your own adhoc toolkit from open source offerings. Either way, you're looking at hours of effort to get even a quick look at the security condition of your network.
Now you can conduct an initial audit in just minutes, with a total cash investment of only $49, thanks to Nsasoft's Nsauditor.
Nsauditor Network Security Auditor is a network security scanner that allows to audit and monitor remote network computers for possible vulnerabilities, checks your network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack it.
Nsauditor is a complete networking utilities package that includes a wide range of tools for network auditing, scanning, monitoring and more. You can discover network services and check them for vulnerabilities, list all TCP and UDP endpoints with their associated process, discover NetBios names, audit MS SQL servers, scan for common Adware traces and more. The program also includes real-time network packet filtering and analyzing, remote network performance monitoring, network status monitoring, web proxy scanning, password auditing, intrusion detection system based on security events log analyzer, IP address lookup and more than 45 network tools for scanning, sniffing, enumerating and gaining access to machines, DNS and WHOIS lookups, e-mail validation, HTTP traffic generator and intrusion detection based on security events log analyzer.
The product contains a built-in database of known network security vulnerabilities, which allows you to select the items for scanning and add custom entries. Nsauditor can reveal and catalog a variety of information, including installed software, shares, users, drives, hotfixes, NetBios, RPC, SQL and SNMP information, open ports. It can also audit password and security policies as well as make a variety of network attack probes, such as stealth port scans, HTTP / CGI server auditing, registry auditing. The program can sniff and use brute-force and dictionary attacks on LM and NTLM password hashes and expose the insecure ones. Nsauditor does OS detection and automatically creates OS fingerprints which are not included in database. Reports can be generated in HTML and XML format.
Any network professional with basic mouse-clicking skills can drive this program through its paces. If you're new to Network Audit, this tool will let you get some basic hands-on experience at low cost. If you're an experienced network security auditor, Nsauditor can still give you a quick initial assessment to help you see where to best concentrate more detailed analysis.
Overall, this is a very complete package for a surprisingly low price.
Application Info: http://www.nsauditor.com/downloads/index.html
Application Screenshot: http://www.nsauditor.com/images/screens/nm1.jpg
Download URL: http://www.nsauditor.com/downloads/nsauditor_setup.exe