10 free network security tools every IT Pro should have

The fact that you may not have heard of what Verizon refers to as ‘the detection deficit’ in the Data Breach Investigations Report is by the by. For the record, it’s the difference between how long it takes the bad guys to compromise a target network and how long it takes you to detect that there is a threat. What matters here is that they are on the right side, as far as network compromise times are concerned, of that deficit and you are falling ever further behind. Frankly, as far as detecting threats go, you need all the help you can get. That help comes in many different forms including, as you might expect to read here considering the business that MAXfocus is in, from a managed security perspective. What you might not expect to hear is that another way to help close the ‘hacker gap’ is by employing free network security tools. Yeah, you read that right: even in the world of security there is sometimes such a thing as a free lunch. So here’s some ingredients, in no particular order, that cost nothing but form the basis of a pretty balanced and healthy defensive security diet…