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Awards
From: Fyodor <fyodor () dhp com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:50:03 -0500 (EST)
Kudos to those of you who have been nominating nmap for various awards! This publicity is very important, since free software like nmap has no advertising budget to compete with the commercial solutions. I just found out on Slashdot that nmap won two awards. The first is Info World's 1998 best information security product (shared with others such as L0phtcrack and IPSec). At http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm they say: "This same public-spiritedness has also given us great tools such as nmap (www.insecure.org/nmap) and L0phtcrack (www.l0pht.com). Nmap is the port scanner extraordinaire that we rely on regularly to get a quick birds-eye view of a network. Besides identifying open ports in every shape and form, nmap can identify OSes via TCP fingerprinting. The capability to send non-Request for Comment-compliant packets to an IP stack does have its downsides, however. It can hang some kernels, so use it carefully. Despite this rare condition, the capability will forever change how risk assessments are performed. With the exception of commercial vulnerability-detection tools, nothing else comes close to nmap for rapid network-security assessments." The second award is Codetalker Digest's Security Product of the Year in "Audit and Scanning" category. At http://www.codetalker.com/ they say: "NMap 2.03 : In its latest version, Fyodor's popular port scanning tool has added TCP Fingerprinting technology to allow remote Operating System identification. This, in addition to its plethora of port scanning methods makes it an tool for every Infosec Professional's arsenal." Anyway, great work! Infoworld in particular said emailed recommendations played an important role in their decisions. Keep up the evangelizing! Cheers, Fyodor -- Fyodor 'finger pgp () www insecure org | pgp -fka' Frustrated by firewalls? Try nmap: http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ "I might be able to shoehorn a reference count in on top of the numeric value by disallowing multiple references on scalars with a numeric value, but but it wouldn't be as clean. I do occasionally worry about that." -Larry Wall
Current thread:
- Awards Fyodor (Feb 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Awards Donald McLachlan (Mar 08)
- RE: Awards Rob Shein (Mar 08)