CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) CAS-003 Cert Guide, Second Edition

Chapter 10. Select the Appropriate Security Assessment Tool

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Network Tool Types: This section covers the types of tools used to perform security assessments of networks, including port scanners, vulnerability scanners, protocol analyzers, SCAP scanners, network enumerators, fuzzers, HTTP interceptors, exploitation tools and frameworks, visualization tools, and log reduction and analysis tools.

• Host Tool Types: This section describes the tools used to assess vulnerabilities that might be present on an individual host. These types of tools include password crackers, vulnerability scanners, command-line tools, local exploitation tools and frameworks, SCAP tools, file integrity monitoring utilities, log ...