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External Links to Security Tools
A variety of tools to administer your system. You must be an authorized user to
utilize these tools to scan machines across the network, exceptions must be
authorized by the Security Operations and Services Director in accordance with
policy AD20.
Please keep in mind that there is no guarantee
that you will be 100% safe. Additional security informational links can be found on
the links page.
The use of these tools, either purposefully or accidentally, that
violate University Policies
will result in a referral to OJA or
OHR.
Please choose from the following:
Windows/DOS Security Tools
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Tool Name |
Description |
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Active
Ports |
An NT/2000/XP program which monitors open
ports and maps them to the owning application. |
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CERIAS |
The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) is currently viewed as one
of the world's leading centers for research and education in areas of
information security that are crucial to the protection of critical
computing and communication infrastructure. |
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FPort |
Command line utility which maps all open
TCP and UDP ports to the owning application. Created by Foundstone and
is for Windows NT/2000 only. |
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HFNetchk |
Command line utility that tells you if you
are up to date on Windows patches. |
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IIS
Lockdown Tool |
Turns off unnecessary services and features
of IIS. Includes URLScan, which can be installed to restrict the type of
HTTP requests that the server can process. |
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Inzider |
Maps ports to owning application. Must be
installed to run. |
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KDE
KMail |
Secure e-mail through SSH Tunneling. |
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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer |
Checks for hotfixes and security
misconfigurations on Windows systems. |
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Microsoft RPC DCOM Vulnerability Scanner |
Command line tool that searches for the
presence of the MS03-039 Patch. |
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Microsoft Windows 2000 IIS 5.0 Hotfix Checker |
Tools which checks to ensure all current
IIS patches are installed. |
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Sam
Spade |
General Utility which includes whois, ping,
dig, nslookup, SMTP relay checker, etc. |
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Superscan |
Windows Port scanner, pinger, and resolver
created by Foundstone. |
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Sysinternals Suite of Tools |
TCPView and Process Explorer are two of the
Sysinternals Windows tools that are highly recommended. |
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Stunnel |
A program that allows you to encrypt
arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL. |
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Tiny
Personal Firewall |
Firewall may be installed freely for
personal use. Business and institutional users may use this for
evaluation purposes. |
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WinSCP |
Secure Copying Utility. |
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Zone
Alarm and Zone Alarm Pro |
Zone Alarm Personal firewall is freely
downloadable. Zone Alarm Pro is a 30 day trial download. |
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Macintosh Security Tool
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Tool Name |
Description |
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CERIAS |
The Center for Education and Research
in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) is currently viewed
as one of the world's leading centers for research and education
in areas of information security that are crucial to the
protection of critical computing and communication infrastructure. |
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*nix Security Tools
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Tool Name |
Description |
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CIAC
Security Tools |
A collection of *nix related security
tools. |
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CERIAS |
The Center for Education and Research
in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) is currently viewed
as one of the world's leading centers for research and education
in areas of information security that are crucial to the
protection of critical computing and communication infrastructure. |
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Cryptographic File System (CFS) |
Learn how to compile, install and setup CFS under Linux
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Dartmouth - Password
and Authentication Tools |
A collection of *nix related security
tools. |
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MIT - Athena,
Kerberos, Zephyr etc,... |
A collection of *nix related security
tools. |
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NIST Security Tools |
A collection of *nix related security
tools. |
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Open SSH |
OpenSSH designed to run on the some *nix
operating systems. |
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Stunnel |
A program that allows you to encrypt
arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL |
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Texas A&M - Tiger
Tools |
A collection of *nix related security
tools. |
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Trinux |
Contains the latest versions of
popular Open Source network security tools for port scanning,
packet sniffing, vulnerability scanning, sniffer detection, packet
construction, active/passive OS fingerprinting, network
monitoring, session-hijacking, backup/recovery, computer
forensics, intrusion detection, and more. |
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Wietse's
tools and papers |
A collection of *nix related security
tools. |
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