IT Security Controls: A Guide to Corporate Standards and Frameworks

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9. Security Testing and Attack Simulation Tools

Virgilio Viegas¹   and Oben Kuyucu¹

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Doha, Qatar

 

This chapter lists several security testing and attack simulation tools by type. These tools must be operated in a contained environment like an isolated network segment, or when used in other types of environments, they need to be executed with a well-defined, clear scope and duration explicitly authorized by the system’s owners.

Although some of these tools are presented as part of a category, they can also perform tasks from other categories.

It should be noted that most of these ...