Security Tools/Sysadmin

From ITS Wiki - Information Technology Services - University of Rhode Island

Contents 1 Nagios Monitoring 2 WinSCP 3 TightVNC 4 AutoRun 5 ElogDump 6 KILL 7 CMD Win Patch Check 8 DCOMbobulator 9 MSBA 2.0 10 Titan Network tools

Nagios Monitoring

http://www.nagios.org/
Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well.

WinSCP

http://www.uri.edu/security/app/winscp.exe
Freeware SFTP Client.

TightVNC

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-tight/
Remote Desktop Utility Unix/Windows.

AutoRun

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html
Checks the registry/startup menu for startup programs.

ElogDump

http://www.uri.edu/security/app/elogdmp.exe
Microsoft Event Viewer file dump.

KILL

http://www.dynawell.com/support/ResKit/download/wntkill.asp
Kill a proccess ID from Windows Task Manager.

CMD Win Patch Check

http://hfnetchk.shavlik.com/default.asp
HFNetChk.exe is the multi-threaded command-line tool you can use to assess a computer or selected group of computers for the absence of security patches.

DCOMbobulator

http://www.grc.com/dcom/
Removes DCOM.

MSBA 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer Version 2.0

Titan Network tools

[1] Whois, network mapper, mac vendor lookup, port scanner, and more.