Network stuff is not my strong suit, and apparently it’s not for our IT guy either. He just stopped by asking me (a software engineer) if I knew of any good utilities for testing firewalls.
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So what do you guys who have to keep firewalls locked up for a living use to test your security?
Already told him in AIM but for the rest, probably best option with respects to cost is Nessus.
If you ant to test outside in egress you need to get a box on the interest that you can run Nessus from (hell run from your home network). For internal scans we use Nessus at sitel and for external we use Trustwave.
Testing enterprise firewalls I have a lot of fun tools. Just setup a full Juniper multi site network in rochester that included 20 firewalls all together.
What specifically are you looking to check? Just inbound ports you can see or try to actually hack the firewall and see if it flags it?