What is meant by the term “SATAN”?

SATAN is a tool that is designed specially to help system administrators. It can detect many common types of network related security hazards, and reports the trouble without actually tapping them.

For each and every type or malware or security hazards found, SATAN provides a tutorial that helps to explain the trouble and its impact on the network and computer. The tutorial also helps to provide a way to tackle such problems. It tells, what can be executed about the problem.

SATAN gathers the information and makes it available to everyone, having access to the network. SATAN can also act as a powerful scanner program which can automatically discovers security holes in remote hosts.