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What is Network Scanner

Network scanning is a technique that is used to assess the security vulnerabilities in a computer network.  There are different scanning procedures such as ports scanning, pings sweeps can collecting the information about the computer system and network based on the IP network.  Hackers also use the scanning techniques to attack a network. 

As a network administrator you need to deal with the security related issues in your network such as patch management, assessing security vulnerabilities, network auditing, services management and network monitoring. 

To detect the vulnerabilities in your network, you need an excellent scanning tool.  Following list provides the best network scanning tools.

GFI LAN Guard Network Security Scanner

GFILAN Guard Network Security Scanner allows you to detect, assess and troubleshoot and vulnerabilities in your network.  Being a network administrator, you often need to deal with multiple security related issues and GFI LAN Guard Network Security Scanner provides you the solution for multiple security vulnerabilities and threats.

 

GFI LAN Guard NSS scans the network based on the 15,000 known vulnerabilities.  It allows you to scan your networks across multiple platforms.  It provides the customized report of the scans across your whole computer network.

 

Advanced IP Scanner 1.5  

Advanced IP Scanner is a fast LAN scanner for the Windows based computers.  With this software you can have the detailed information about your network computers in a very short time.  It provides you the multiple functions such as remote shutdown, wakeup and others.  It can scan hundreds of computers in a very short time.

Soft Detect Network Scanner 1.0

Soft Detect Network Scanner is aimed to scan your computer and find the P2P programs and media files, illegal music, and ensures that no illegal files and programs will be downloading and saved to your computer.  It limits the access to the certain illegal sites from your computer and automatic scans your computer for the potentially dangerous music, media and video files.

Angry IP Scanner 2.21  

It is a very fast security scanner and provides you the multiple options such as scan dead machines, check open ports, scanning multiple ports and the ability to resolve the host names.

 

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