The Ultimate List of 50 Free Security Tools, Tested For You

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The least you can do for your cyber security is to invest some time and use these tools

The idea that we should create a gargantuan list of cyber security tools started running through our minds a while ago because, in our journey into the cyber security and data protection world, we ran into lots of useful tools.

When we decided to work on this list, we had no idea how and where to begin.

What tools should we include? What should we not? How do we tell if one is worthy and the other one is not?

Do we mention ultra-known products?

Should we stick to what’s free or should we also add paid products?

Eventually, we came up with what we’re about to read. But first here’s a quick guideline that you should read before we jump right to the subject:

1.- We don’t claim this is the ultimate list. It’s not complete and it’s definitely not final. It probably never will be. We are aware that we missed lots of essential, important tools – by mistake or just because we can’t know them all. So please feel free to jump in with more useful tools that you feel they should be mentioned.

2.- We stayed away from recommending antivirus, VPN or firewall products. There are independent industry experts who only do that. Instead, we prefer to list those experts or websites that will help you compare such services, in order to choose what’s best for you.

3.- We tried to test them all before recommending them. And we only included tools that have free versions.

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