A Network Perimeter Defence Penetration Testing Toolkit

Abstract

NetStab is a state of the art software-based toolkit that launches penetration tests on a Network Firewall to evaluate its efficiency, performance and guide the network administrator to fill up the loopholes. In the times of intricate communications converting the physical world into global villages, many organizations observe multitude network infiltrations henceforth secure communication becomes imperative to be ensured. NetStab will strengthen firewalls through its vulnerability assessment tests, therefore, preventing network infiltration, data leakage, and preventing hackers from accessing sensitive information. The purpose of this thesis document is to proclaim constituent services our product will provide, the methodology for the product design and development, functionalities and procedures followed to deliver these functionalities, constraints respective to procedures followed, and final product results obtained at the time of project submission. The purpose of this project revolves around the idea to establish an indigenous Firewall Penetration Testing Toolkit to confirm the efficiency of the firewall configured to secure the network. As there is a shortage of pen-test tools in the market and there isn’t a tool that covers all aspects and types of firewall penetration tests, all the tools available are either not comprehensive or only offer one type of functionality required to run a penetration test. NetStab offers all these types of tests in one tool which will be easy to use and will combine all the functionality of the utility programs to ensure a comprehensive testing procedure.