This bootable ISO live CD/DVD is based on Fedora. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications
and should run on most x86 platforms. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the network security administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: “Top 100 Security Tools” by insecure.org are available in the toolkit. On 2009-Jan-08 the latest NST release: v1.8.1, based on Fedora 8 using the Linux Kernel “2.6.26.8-57.fc8″ was released.
A short mash up of the features of this toolkit include: Wireshark based Network Packet Capture that can capture from 4 interfaces at a time, a Snort IDS based implementation supporting multiple network interfaces, a Snort IDS Collector, a Web-Based Front-End To nmap, a Web-Based Front-End To ntop, a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) Server Session Manager , a WPA-PSK Wireless Configuration, a Minicom Access Terminal Server and it also monitors RS-232-C Serial Communication data that is transmitted between two serial devices.
