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Hi,<br />
you could use openvas <a href="http://www.openvas.org" rel="ugc">http://www.openvas.org</a>&nbsp;.<br />
I used to make comparison with nessus and nipper and I found it compleate.<br />
bye<br />
Carlo
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Hi,
you could use openvas http://www.openvas.org [http://www.openvas.org] .
I used to make comparison with nessus and nipper and I found it compleate.
bye
Carlo

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Thank you experts, I will give a try to the above mentioned tools.<br />
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Any more suggestions are welcomed
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Thank you experts, I will give a try to the above mentioned tools.

Any more suggestions are welcomed

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Hi<br />
We used Nessus and were able to achieve what we need<br />
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Thank you all for support.
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Hi
We used Nessus and were able to achieve what we need

Thank you all for support.

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Hello Experts,<br />
I am looking for free or open source to perform security audit on our Cisco Switches, Routers and Firewalls because &nbsp;I want to know the vulnerbilty and security holes in these network devices<br />
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Any suggestions are welcomed.
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Hello Experts,
I am looking for free or open source to perform security audit on our Cisco Switches, Routers and Firewalls because  I want to know the vulnerbilty and security holes in these network devices

Any suggestions are welcomed.

Network Devices Audit for Compliance Purpose

A vulnerability is a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's information assurance. Vulnerability is the intersection of three elements: a system susceptibility or flaw, attacker access to the flaw, and attacker capability to exploit the flaw. To exploit a vulnerability, an attacker must have at least one applicable tool or technique that can connect to a system weakness, known as the attack surface. Vulnerability management is the cyclical practice of identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities. Other vulnerabilities include security risks, security defects and constructs in programming languages that are difficult to use properly.

Vulnerabilities

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

Cisco PIX is a dedicated hardware firewall appliance; the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is a firewall and anti-malware security appliance that provides unified threat management and protection the PIX does not. Other Cisco devices and systems include routers, switches, storage networking, wireless and the software and hardware for PIX Firewall Manager (PFM), PIX Device Manager (PDM) and Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM).

Cisco

Network security consists of the policies adopted to prevent and monitor authorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of a computer network and network-accessible resources. Network security involves the authorization of access to data in a network, and covers a variety of computer networks; conducting transactions and communications among businesses, government agencies and individuals. Networks can be private, such as within a company, and others which might be open to public access.