If you haven’t been looking to open source to help address your security needs, it’s a shame—you’re missing out on a growing number of freely available tools for protecting your networks, hosts, and data. The best part is, many of these tools come from active projects backed by well-known sources you can trust, such as leading security companies and major cloud operators. And many have been tested in the biggest and most challenging environments you can imagine.
Open source has always been a rich source of tools for security professionals—Metasploit, the open source penetration testing framework, is perhaps the best-known—but information security is not restricted to the realm of researchers, investigators, and analysts, and neither are the five open source security tools we survey below.
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