** FREE Community Tier available NOW ** Meet NetScan Xi v8r9 — your network has secrets. This finds them. ** FREE Community Tier available NOW ** to home lab enthusiasts. I hope you can then assist me in some spreading the words to potential enterprise users/adopters. You can download the zipped file set here, includes admin, user, deployment and training guides. Please test and provide feedback and ideas for future releases. ** Please message me for the download link ** As this site is not for self promotion, please contact me via LinkedIn for any commercial based enquiries. https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-hancox-077966298/ Every time a new container is spun up, a remote device connects, or a service setup defaults to cleartext authentication, a new blind spot opens. Traditional scanners love to scream about problems, but they bury you under a mountain of raw noise. They tell you what is broken, but rarely where to start or how it impacts your compliance audits. That’s why I engineered NetScan Xi v8—the self-hosted or cloud-based, lightweight network visibility engine that pairs deep infrastructure discovery with instant tactical triage. Reachable straight from a centralised dashboard, version 6 introduces a powerhouse feature suite designed to help IT teams and security professionals move from chaotic firefighting to structured defense: - Defensive Credential-Exposure Auditing: Safely flags risky, unencrypted, or cleartext authentication (like exposed FTP, RDP, or Redis) using non-intrusive, detection-only scripts—zero destructive brute-forcing involved. - Enhanced Software & Application Inventory: Automatically builds a comprehensive, filterable per-host inventory tracking product versions, services, ports, and CPEs across all assets. - Regulatory Compliance Cross-Referencing: Instantly translates technical vulnerabilities and exposure risks into clear pass/fail grids mapped directly to specific ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and HIPAA controls.