Welcome to the Network Security Toolkit (NST). This bootable ISO live CD/DVD (NST Live) 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/x86_64 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. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system administration, navigation, automation and configuration of many network and security applications found within the NST distribution. In the virtual world, NST can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on enterprise virtual servers hosting virtual machines.
What we find rather fascinating with NST is that we can transform most x86/x86_64 systems into a system designed for network traffic analysis, intrusion detection, network packet generation, wireless network monitoring, virtual session serving, or a sophisticated network/host scanner. This can all be done without disturbing or modifying any underlying system storage. NST can be up and running on a typical x86/x86_64 notebook in less than a minute by just rebooting NST Live. The notebook's hard disk will not be altered in any way.
NST also makes an excellent tool to help one with crash recovery troubleshooting scenarios and diagnostics.
