Commercial software

Listed below are a number of commercial software tools used by security practitioners in their testing and day-to-day work.

A

• Atomic OSSEC for Enterprise - An enterprise-level Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)

B

• Binary Ninja - An interactive disassembler, decompiler, and binary analysis platform
• Burp Suite Pro - Web Application testing software

H

• Hash Suite Standard or Pro - A Windows-based high-performance password cracker

J

• John the Ripper Pro - A multi-platform password cracker

M

• Maltego Pro (and Enterprise) - An open-source intelligence and graphical link analysis tool
• Metasploit Pro - The world’s most used penetration testing framework

N

• NetScanTools Pro - A suite of network tools and utilities
• Nessus - A network vulnerability scanner
• Nexpose - A vulnerability scanning tool from Rapid7

S

• Snort (Subscriber Ruleset) - A free and open-source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) and an intrusion prevention system (IPS)
• Solarwinds - A collection of commercial security tools for network, system, application, and database management
• Splunk - A System Information Event Management (SIEM) system used to search, monitor, and analyze data logs from various sources

T

• Telerik Fiddler - a web debugging proxy server used to log, inspect, test, and alter HTTP and HTTPS traffic between computers and the Internet