Slide Show: 10 Free Network Defense Tools

Affordably protect the perimeter and beyond with these handy network security utilities and toolkits

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The Swiss army knife of free network defense tools, Network Security Toolkit (NST) takes the best-of-breed approach by bundling a whole bunch of utilities under one mantle, including Kismet, Snort, Wireshark, and Netflow, among them.

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Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer

Ericka Chickowski specializes in coverage of information technology and business innovation. She has focused on information security for the better part of a decade and regularly writes about the security industry as a contributor to Dark Reading.

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