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50 Free Network Security Software for SMEs

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20 Security Tools

Babel Enterprise: Babel evaluates compliance level of any security policy in a company, in order to help to achieve their goals, for instance, whether LOPD, ISO/IEC 27001:2005 policies are being accomplished. Babel manages relevant assets for one of the companies that Babel controls. This assets are related with managed risk levels.

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Tripwire: This software is a security and data integrity tool useful for monitoring and alerting on specific file change(s) on a range of systems.

Untangle: Untangle provides you with spam, virus, and spyware protection, as well as Web filtering, firewall, and more.

Network Security Toolkit: This tool combines a variety of open source apps that will help you stay on top of traffic, intrusions, and more.

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Hardened Linux:This Linux distribution will help you improve your security.

Kismet: Kismet offers wireless network detection, intrusion detection, and packet sniffing, all in one.

ProShield: It is a system administration program for Ubuntu/Debian Linux. It helps ensure your system is secure and up-to-date by checking many different aspects of your system. Regular use is recommended.

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Nagios XI: It is an enterprise-class monitoring and alerting solution built on Nagios Core and other proven OSS components. Features include a PHP web interface, integrated performance graphing, customizable dashboards, web configuration GUI, configuration wizards, user management, and more.

AWStats: It is a free powerful and feature rich tool that generates advanced web, streaming, FTP or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages.

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher: Use this tool to monitor your SNMP network devices.

Nessus: Use this free scanner to stay on top of your vulnerabilities.

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Snort: It is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system (IDS/IPS) developed by Sourcefire. Combining the benefits of signature, protocol, and anomaly-based inspection, Snort is the most widely deployed IDS/IPS technology worldwide.

Network Security Analysis Tool: NSAT is a fast, highly configurable, bulk network security scanner for over 50 different services and hundreds of vulnerabilities. It's main advantage is its flexibility and configurability.

BASE: It is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system.

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Ettercap: It is a comprehensive suite for man in the middle attacks. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols and includes many features for network and host analysis.

SNARE (System iNtrusion Analysis and Reporting Environment): It is a series of log collection agents that facilitate centralised analysis of audit log data.

Nikto: It is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6400 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1200 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers.

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8 Network Monitoring Tools

Nmap ("Network Mapper"): It is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. .

Wireshark: Using Wireshark, you can take a look at all of the traffic that passes over your Ethernet network.

Bro: It is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.Bro: Bro offers network intrusion detection that will passively monitor your network traffic for anomalous traffic behavior.



Network Simulator and Network Animator: With this tool, you can test your network flow to prevent bottlenecks and promote better routing.Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research.

Angry IP Scanner: It is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses and ports as well as has many other features.

TcpDump: If you're looking for a light, secure packet sniffer, check out this tool.

The Network Visualizer: Get graphic information on your network activity using this tool.

tnv: This tool is intended for network traffic analysis to facilitate learning what constitutes 'normal' activity on a network, investigating packet details security events, or network troubleshooting. tnv can open saved libpcap (from tcpdump, windump, ethereal, etc.) formatted files or capture live packets on the wire, and export data in libpcap format or save the data to a MySQL database to enable examining trends over time.

10 Firewalls and their associated tools

Thats not all, to prevent unauthorized or unwanted communications between computer networks or hosts we also giving away 10 most powerfull firewalls in this DVD.

m0n0wall: This is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software).m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server, PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration is stored in one single XML text file to keep things transparent.

Endian Firewall Community(EFW): It is a "turn-key" Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionality. The software has been designed with "usability in mind" and is very easy to install, use and manage, without losing its flexibility.

SmoothWall Express: Use SmoothWall to turn a PC into a firewall appliance for your network.

Firewall Builder: This tool will make it easy to establish rules for your firewall.

5 Remote Monitoring Tools

Stunnel: Stunnel will encrypt your TCP connections inside SSL connections. The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server.

OpenVPN: Get safe VPN access using this tool.

strongSwan: It is an OpenSource IPsec implemen

tation for the Linux operating system. It is based

on the discontinued FreeS/WAN project and the

X.509 patch which we developped over the last three years.

PuTTY: It is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. I

UltraVNC: It is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely.

8 Live Security distros

Fire, Helix, phlak, Ubuntu 11, Knoppix, ADRIANE-KNOPPIX, and more...

10 Essential Updates

WampServer, IE 8, MS.NET Framework 4, Silverlight, and more...

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