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5.2.9 Satan

• SATAN-Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks
• It is a vulnerability detection application designed to hack into Internet-connected hosts.
• It is a UNIX program that checks both local and remote hosts for vulnerabilities.
• It is a powerful tool that can thoroughly scan systems and entire networks of systems for a number of common critical security holes.
• SATAN can be used by administrators  to check their own networks
• It is a program freely available in the INTERNET
• Primary Components of SATAN are

a)      HTTP server

b)     Magic Cookie generator

c)      Policy Engine

d)     Target acquisition

e)      Data acquisition

f)       Inference engine

                  g)   Report & analysis.