Ports are used as an entry point to any network. It connects a network with outside world of internet and web. Open ports posses a critical threat to network security systems. Port Scanning is essential in order to maintain network security and compliance enforcement efforts. With excessive exposure to internet, open and unaddressed ports become a critical concern for data privacy. Negligence is an offense in information and network security. It is extremely critical for network security administration to smartly secure their infrastructure with smart objectives. With excessive use of internet and web faced technologies, organizations are becoming more vulnerable with intruders knocking at their virtual front doors. It is critical for organizations to scan their ports regularly to identify open ports that expose their systems to intruders over internet.
Secure Bytes Port Scanner is special software which is designed to search a network host for open ports. This is often used by administrators to check the security of their networks to withstand an attempt of breach or not. It facilitates identification of unwanted connections with ports and possible backdoors intrusions over a network. Administrator can easily control and check UCP, TCP and other ports to block services not approved by network management. Unlike other port scanners this scanner extends different scan options to the user. Besides checking for normal TCP and UDP Ports this scanner also allow user to check Peer to Peer Data Sharing Application (P2P), Voice over IP (VoIP), Games Ports and Trojan Ports on the host system. This helps in checking if there is any specific computer running any software against policy and to find any Trojan present on the host computer.
Open ports may allows services that can become security hazards for any organization. Unwanted services should be disabled and regular port scanning should be conducted for proper identification of assets.