What it means is that open source network security applications are getting to a very mature state where the competition is healthy and competitive; it's great to see. In all, there were a total of 12 entrants in to the category including Snort, ClamAV, Nessus and Firestarter among others in this wide-ranging category.
As a side note, many suggestions mentioned the need to create a Firewall Distro Poll, as opposed to just an application poll. Do you think there should be a separate poll? Would your list have included other network security applications?
nmap | 24.95% |
Wireshark | 20.68% |
Firestarter | 13.01 |
ClamAV | 10.23% |
Snort | 7.68% |
Guarddog | 7.04% |
tcpdump | 4.48% |
Shorewall | 4.48% |
kismet | 2.99% |
Nessus | 2.77% |
fwBuilder | 1.49% |
dsniff | 0.21% |
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