More than 300 companies manufacture access points, and there are more than 10,000 different models of network infrastructure. Companies thus face a major challenge in maintaining a system to track and identify all potential rogue wireless devices and continually scanning the network to identify them. To address this challenge, Network Chemistry has made a free open source product available to help organizations begin to immediately scan their networks.

RogueScanner is an open source vulnerability management tool that is used to gain greater network visibility. This enables you to quickly identify and remove rogue wireless devices that may provide back door access to your critical data and infrastructure. Considering that rogue access points and peers represent a major threat to data integrity, RogueScanner is a valuable tool that you can start using today. RogueScanner is free and open source, and is licensed under the GPL.

RogueScanner relies on a unique Collaborative Device Classification system to automatically lookup and identify the device type and device's identity in real time. The more people download the tool, the better the tool becomes. This is because device classification decisions are made by a secure central server which learns based on previous classifications that it has performed. RogueScanner collects information from devices on your network (which we call evidence) and sends this information securely to the server that uses this evidence to make classification decisions. The Collaborative Device Classification system has already made over 1,000,000 classifications and its accuracy is continually improving.

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