Awards

[Fyodor <fyodor () dhp com>]

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

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Fyodor                            'finger pgp () www insecure org | pgp -fka'
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