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FEATURED: GFI LANguard Listing updated: December 22, 2011

GFI LANguard is a complete network vulnerability management solution that allows you to scan, detect, assess and remediate security vulnerabilities and provides patch management functionality. This solution scans the entire network, performs over 15,000 vulnerability assessments and identifies possible security threats. The complete and thorough vulnerability assessment database includes standards such as OVAL (2,000+ checks) and SANS Top 20.

GFI LANguard also allows auto-downloads of missing patches as well as patch roll-back. Custom software can also be deployed resulting in a consistently configured environment that is secure against vulnerabilities. This is achieved through a single console with extensive reporting functionality, effectively addressing the three pillars of vulnerability management: security scanning, patch management and network auditing. This cost-effective solution is ideal for businesses to safeguard their systems and networks from hacker attacks and security breaches. GFI LANguard is now also available as a freeware version (with full functionality). Visit our site to learn more & download!
  • Users' Rating: 4.41 [227 votes] - Vote
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Tenable Nessus Listing updated: October 27, 2011

The Nessus® vulnerability scanner is the world-leader in active scanners with more than five million downloads to date. Nessus features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs and across physically separate networks.

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  • Users' Rating: 4 [3 votes] - Vote
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Retina Unified Vulnerability Management Listing updated: October 27, 2011

Retina Network Security Scanner identifies known network security vulnerabilities and assists in prioritizing threats for remediation. Featuring accurate and non-intrusive scanning, users are able to secure their networks against vulnerabilities. Users can also leverage Retina for security risk assessment, project risk management and enforcing standards-based registry settings through custom policy audits.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.45 [38 votes] - Vote
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Maxpatrol - network Security Scanner Listing updated: August 8, 2011

MaxPatrol is a network security scanner optimized for effective use by companies of any size (serving from a few to tens of thousands of nodes). It supports vulnerability testing for servers with non-standard configurations, intelligent recognition of vulnerabilities in known (and custom) web-server scripts, identification of RPC services and more. The program uses inspection methods to minimize false detections. MaxPatrol has at its disposal a protection analyzer developed for web servers and web applications (e.g. internet shops).
Although MaxPatrol operates within Microsoft Windows, it can test for possible vulnerabilities in any software or hardware platform: from Windows workstations to Cisco networks (*nix, Solaris, Novell, AS400, etc.). Additional features include scheduled scans, custom level vulnerabilities, full scan history and more.
  • Users' Rating: 3.77 [13 votes] - Vote
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Sandcat Scanner Listing updated: August 8, 2011

Our in-depth understanding of security issues, emerging Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, traditional Web technologies, and Web programming languages such as PHP, enabled us to deliver exactly what we set out to provide - the most feature-rich and advanced web application security scanner available to date.

Sandcat combines Syhunt's state-of-the-art, multi-process scanning technologies with the incredibly fast Lua language and Chromium to perform remote web application security scans. While spidering a web site and hunting vulnerabilities, Sandcat emulates a modern, HTML 5-aware web browser, making sure every web application gets fully tested.
  • Users' Rating: 4.25 [8 votes] - Vote
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Portable Penetrator Listing updated: March 29, 2011

Portable Penetrator is a complete solution for securing your wireless network and identifying any security flaws before hackers have a chance to do so. This wifi security software provides detailed reports, exposing security issues before it is too late. It allows you to fully secure all of the wireless networks in your business so that no one can break into the network and steal important, confidential information.
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Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Listing updated: February 24, 2011

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner tests the security of your website by crawling through it and launching popular attacks such as cross site scripting, SQL injection and more. Identify vulnerabilities in shopping carts, forms, secured areas and other web applications before hackers do! 75% of internet attacks are on web based applications!

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  • Users' Rating: 4.18 [17 votes] - Vote
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Enterprise Security Reporter Listing updated: January 19, 2011

The Enterprise Security Reporter platform features agent-less, fast, comprehensive discovery and reporting solutions for file security, group memberships, Active Directory, printers, file shares and other security settings on Windows and SharePoint servers. Enterprise Security Reporter is essential for administrators burdened with compliance reporting and security audits, automating reporting and simplifying analysis.

Enterprise Security Reporter provides a reporting and auditing solution for corporate data stored on a file share, or in a SharePoint site. Easily discover necessary security information, run reports, create custom reports and conduct ad-hoc queries across the entire organization.
  • Users' Rating: 3.42 [12 votes] - Vote
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SSM Website Scanner Listing updated: December 2, 2010

Site Security Monitor is an online security service that scans, cleans and protects your website, web server and applications from malware and hacker exploits - and keeps your site secure using advanced SaaS technology. Site Security Monitor performs daily deep application, server, injection and form probing scans and also checks daily whether your site has malware hosted on it.

Subscribing customers receive "Safe Seals" which they may display on their website - half the price of others! We test each URL with over 120,000 different attack parameters.
  • Users' Rating: 5 [3 votes] - Vote
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NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager Listing updated: August 31, 2010

NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager enables you to easily detect mis-configured systems that could lead to expensive breaches or failure to meet compliance goals. The ability to define policy in a simple, easy-to-understand manner, then manage and enforce that policy across your entire enterprise is an essential foundation upon which to build your security and compliance program.

NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager enables you to: Assess configurations against compliance mandates such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, NERC, FDCC and more, Report on systems out of configuration, and easily manage exceptions to compliance, Apply industry best practices to your systems to help ensure good security, Identify and report on user entitlements to systems - an essential part of managing access.
  • Users' Rating: 4.08 [24 votes] - Vote
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