Today's organizations face an increasing number of threats across their network – at the perimeter, across the LAN and WAN, and at endpoints. Protecting them all can result in security sprawl, an ever-increasing set of product that are hard to manage and result in inconsistent security.
Check Point Network Security Solutions are the market-leading choice for securing the network infrastructure. Our firewall security products offer advanced security features such as integrated intrusion prevention, virtualization, gateway antivirus, anti-spam, web content filtering, as well as IPsec and SSL VPN remote access for computers and mobile devices. Check Point also offers standalone intrusion prevention and SSL VPN solutions as part of the unified security architecture. With a unified architecture, our network security solutions provides core technologies that enable you to deploy a consistent, high level of security throughout your entire organization.

If you're an advanced security professional, then you know that the battle to protect online privacy continues to rage on. Security chat rooms, especially, are resounding with calls for vendors to take more responsibility to release products that are more secure. In fact, with all the information and code that is passed on a daily basis, it's a fight that may never end. Fortunately, there are a number of open source security tools that give you a leg up in the battle.

Often a security tool does exactly what you want, right out of the box. More frequently, you need to customize the tool to fit the needs of your network structure. Network Security Tools shows experienced administrators how to modify, customize, and extend popular open source security tools such as Nikto, Ettercap, and Nessus.

This concise, high-end guide discusses the common customizations and extensions for these tools, then shows you how to write even more specialized attack and penetration reviews that are suited to your unique network environment. It also explains how tools like port scanners, packet injectors, network sniffers, and web assessment tools function.