This release introduces numerous new features

Feb 10, 2015 14:18 GMT  ·  By

The famous Network Security Toolkit (NST) computer operating system used by many network administrators and security specialists to analyze and monitor networks, as well as to tighten the security of computer networks, received an update on February 9, 2015. The version is now Network Security Toolkit 20 SVN 6535.

While it brings many attractive features, unfortunately, the distribution is still based on Fedora 20, despite the fact that Fedora 21 has been released at the end of 2014. Some of the hot new features include the latest and greatest Linux kernel 3.18.5 (3.18.5-101.fc20), as well as enhanced NST Mapping Tools, which now allow users to manipulate geolocated network entities on Google Maps.

Most of the features are about NST Mapping Tools

As NST Mapping Tools are the main attraction of this release and because 80 percent of the changelog is occupied by their many features, will we also write about them here. Therefore, we can mention that the dynamic latitude and longitude grid overlay is now displayed on the Google Maps, a widget will now display Distance Measurement Tool Rulers with units in NM, Mi, Km, px, round-trip times, and coordinates.

Various tools and widgets have been introduced in NST Mapping Tools as well, such as a Distance Measurement Tool Ruler Editor, an NST Ruler Tool widget, a Drawing Manager widget, a Drawing Manager Editor widget, a Vertex Editor, a grid of shape overlay, a Drawing Overlay Storage Manager, as well as a Map Label Editor widget.

Ntopng geolocation has been integrated with Google Earth and Mercator Map

In addition, Network Security Toolkit 20 SVN 6535 integrates Ntopng geolocation with the Google Earth and Mercator Map software, enhances the nstnetcfg tool with Network Bonding Management functionality, updates and numerous of the included network and security applications.

Lastly, the release introduces a new Import/Export Management tool to easily save and restore various settings and configuration files of the distribution, which might turn out to be very useful when migrating to a new Network Security Toolkit release.

Network Security Toolkit 20-6535 is available for download right now from Softpedia. While the Live image has been engineered to run on both 32 and 64-bit computers, it only includes software packages optimized for the 32-bit (i686) architecture. The source package is also available for download.