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Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live DVD) based on Fedora 20 providing 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 125 Security Tools by INSECURE.ORG are available in the toolkit. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system/network administration, navigation, automation, geolocation 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.

To access the full NST Wiki, go to: http://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/.

1 - NST Network Interface Bandwidth Monitor

2 - Ntopng Hosts and Flows Geolocation

3 - NST GNOME Desktop Running Etherape

4 - Geolocated traceroute data shown in Google Earth

5 - Systems found by ARP scan ready for further investigation

6 - WIFI locations geolocated by Kismet shown in Google Earth

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Project Admins:

• Ronald W. Henderson
• Paul Blankenbaker

[IlyaK]

Hello,

I believe you need to add information to your Wiki about installing NST on USB stick on Windows.

First of all you need some tool like http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/features
But the funniest part here is that Windows formats flash drive to Fat32 FS (only Fat32 and NTFS are supported on Windows out of box for USB drives).
Fat32 is case insensitive and it has limit to volume label. So, instead of "nst-20-5663.i686" your drive is marked "NST-20-5663".

And when you boot, darcut tries to mount /dev/disk/by-label/nst-20-5663.i686 and it fails.
So, you need to hit "tab" on boot screen and pass root=NST-20-5663 kernel argument.

While it is pretty clear, I've spent some time on it, so you probably need to document that.

[Paul Blankenbaker]

I have updated the NST 20 page to indicate that the Live USB creator tool (https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/) is for both Linux and Windows on the Getting Started Page (http://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nstwiki/index.php/NST_20_Getting_Started) to create a bootable USB memory stick in a Windows environment.

There is also the page showing the direct write method (directly copy ISO image to USB) for all three platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows) at: http://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nstwiki/index.php/Copying_ISO_Images_To_USB.

That being said, your alternative method sounds interesting. If you would like to write up an article on your approach for creating a bootable NST USB memory stick in a Windows environment, we would be happy to add it to the NST Wiki.