Standard Open-Source Security-Testing Tools
There are many excellent open-source security-testing tools. This section only scratches the surface of some of the tools that are available. There are several categories and often a large number of tools in each category. Some common security testing tool categories are port scanning, intrusion detection, and vulnerability scanning.
You will find that many security testing tools will install in Linux, though not everything has been written for Linux systems because Windows has become a very common testing platform, especially now that it is possible to have Linux running directly inside Windows with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Some of the common open-source testing tools that can be configured ...
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