PENTESTs - Top Five Free Testing Tools
This link shares some excellent free PENTEST tools that can help ensure corporate defense systems are actively blocking protecting against major external threats.
Top Five Free Penetration Testing Tools
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/34710.aspx
QUOTE: Penetration Testing uses a variety of specialized tools to make testing far faster and more effective at discovering vulnerabilities. Five of the top tools are highlighted in this article
1. Metasploit - This is a far more advanced tool than the others on this list, and requires more programming knowlege to run and use. This platform runs payloads, shellcode, and remote shells--you will actually penetrate the target. Servers can and will crash!
2. Nessus - It has long been my favorite vulnerability scanner, due to its speed, accuracy, and depth.
3. Nikto - Nikto is an Open Source web server security scanning tool. Currently at version 2.03, can scan for over 3500 potential vulnerabilities
4. Nmap - Nmap is my Swiss Army Knife for network scanning, port mapping, and OS & application discovery. Somehow it's both the simplest and most flexible tool in my arsenal.
5. Wireshark - Captures wireless network traffic and examines protocols and sessions in depth.