2 years ago

Category: Software, Security, firewall, artificial-intelligence

The open ports in your hardware could be critical points of vulnerability if services they are exposed to them are misconfigured or unpatched. Fortunately, there are free tools available that can detect all of the open ports in your ecosystem so that you can then assess the level of criticality of each exposure. In this post, we discuss the 5 best free open port scanners you can start using today to check for open ports in your ecosystem.Click here to skip ahead to the list of open port scanners.

When a port is open, data packets are permitted to flow in and out of your local network through that port.

To learn how to use Wireshark to scan for open ports, refer to the following video tutorial: Angry IP scanner is a free network scanner offering a suite of network monitoring tools.