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Looking for new tools to extend your tool box? The top 100 list of best security tools is a great start.

ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy)

The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) helps to find security vulnerabilities in web applications during development and testing.


Latest release: 2.14.0 [Oct. 12, 2023]

ZGrab

ZGrab is a TLS banner grabber and written in Go. It works together with the ZMap utility.

Zeek (Bro)

Zeek is a network security monitoring tool (NSM) and helps with monitoring. It can also play an active rol in performing forensics and incident response.


Latest release: 6.2.0 [Feb. 20, 2024]

Zenmap

Zenmap is the graphical user interface for the well-known network and vulnerability scanner Nmap. Read how it works in this review.

Zeus

Zeus is a security tool to provide security audits on AWS environments. It is written in shell script and can be used for security audits.

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