= Tools Covered in NetworkSecurity =
The topic is broken up into several sections depending on the learning curve of the tools.

== Basic Tools ==
These are the basic tools that are available on Linux/Windows systems that we will cover this semester.

=== Network Command-line tools ===
These are the basic network tools that you need to know. Not all of these will be covered since some of them are studied in CPTR 327 Principles of Networking. Those with stars are tools that I will assume you know and can use.

 * nslookup*
 * dig*
 * arp
 * netstat
 * wireshark
 * tcpdump
 * ifconfig and ipconfig [/displaydns]
 * Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer
 * Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
 * traceroute and tracert
 * route

=== Simple Cipher Cracking Tools ===
 * [[http://math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/java/EARLYCIPHERS/Vigenere.html|Nice Vigenere tool for frequency analysis!]]

=== Stand alone encryption ===
 * [[http://www.adamberent.com/ABICoder|ABI-Coder]] for PKI use Kleopatra

=== Online Tool for encryption/decryption and encoding/decoding ===

 * [[https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/|CyberChef]]