Cybersecurity Tools - Reviews and Articles
It seems as if we encounter new security threats every day. Threats that turn into successful cyber attacks can have devastating consequences to organizations, including financial loss, compromised or destroyed data, reputational damage, and more. And with the escalating nature of security threats and risks, organizations are required to enforce the best strategies, infrastructure and controls to achieve the highest level of security possible.
Every organization needs the right security and infosec tools to monitor their networks, detect threats, assess risks, identify vulnerabilities, prevent unauthorized access, encrypt communication, etc. In the past few years we have been blessed with a booming expansion of security tools and solutions that help organizations address different security needs and perform various functions.
But even with the multitude of options available, it isn’t always about using the most tools, it’s about using the right ones — which involves knowing which tool is best for performing the task at hand. Recognizing the importance of security tools, and the skills needed to navigate them, we deliver blog posts that will help empower your security toolkits.
In this category you’ll find posts dedicated to a specific tool along with an in-depth review featuring a description of the tool and a look at its installation, pros, cons, and tests that showcase the tool in action. Additionally, we also provide posts that examine a collection of tools that serve a specific security task and purpose, such as those for red teams, blue teams, OSINT, and the like.
AutoRecon: A Multi-Threaded Network Reconnaissance Tool
With organizations’ digital footprints growing larger and larger, network recon and the enumeration of services available over the public internet has become a critical area in the security of an organization. And given the increased number of vulnerabilities and threats targeting web applications, performing automated recon and service enumeration is ever more important.
Uniscan: An RFI, LFI, and RCE Vulnerability Scanner
When scanning remote hosts and web applications, the danger of file inclusion attacks is an important consideration, particularly when dealing with web applications that support plugins such as WordPress.
Aquatone: An HTTP-Based Attack Surface Visual Inspection Tool
Attack surface management has become one of the most critical aspects of any website on the public internet. Simply knowing your attack surface is no longer enough— and effectively managing it with tools like Aquatone has become the norm. Combining Aquatone with popular tools like OWASP Amass helps improve and streamline website attack surface management even further.
Nmap on Windows: Installation and Usage Guide for Windows Users
Available for Windows, Linux, macOS, and a range of other operating systems, Nmap is widely used to perform network scans, conduct security auditing, and find vulnerabilities in networks.
nmapAutomator: Automating your Nmap Enumeration and Reconnaissance
The rise of reconnaissance tools in the last decade has been remarkable.
Top 30+ Most Popular Red Team Tools
Organizations are having a hard time detecting new tactics and techniques employed by cyber criminals looking to breach their defenses. The only sure way to thwart possible cyber threats is to discover any unknown weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the systems and existing defenses. And what better way to do this than to rely on expertise of red and blue teams, and even adopting a security methodology of a purple team.
AssetFinder: A Handy Subdomain and Domain Discovery Tool
IP and DNS intelligence gathering has become a critical part of any organization’s cybersecurity outlook.
SecurityTrails as a Threat Intelligence Platform
The number of cyberattacks is increasing rapidly, leading to significant losses in businesses’ revenue and reputation. According to Cyber Security Ventures, the global cost of cybercrime is projected to reach USD 10.05 trillion by 2025 annually.
Meet SQL Explorer: One of the Best Alternatives to Shodan
In this modern age of IP reconnaissance and security research combined with the ever-growing list of software services accessible via the public internet, it’s critical to stay ahead of the curve.
theHarvester: a Classic Open Source Intelligence Tool
Have you ever wished you could retrieve data from multiple sources in a quick and easy manner as part of your reconnaissance of a threat?
