# Universal Persistence Commands

Commands that help you maintain control over a compromised system.

  * [ncat](ncat.md) - "Ncat is a feature-packed networking utility which reads and writes data across networks from the command line."
  * [netcat](netcat.md) - The original and venerable "swiss-army knife" of network communications tools.
  * [socat](socat.md) - "socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels."