Security Tools

DOE Licensed Tools

DOE DOS/Windows Antivirus Contract

CIAC and CSTC Tools

CIAC Virus Database

CIAC Internet Hoaxes

Merlin is a tool that adds a graphical front end and management capabilities for several popular security tools such as SPI-Net, Tiger, COPS, Crack, and Tripwire.

Courtney monitors the network and identifies the source machines of SATAN probes/attacks.

NID, the Network Intrusion Detector, provides a suite of security tools that detects and analyzes network intrusions.

SPI-Net, the Security Profile Inspector for Networks, is a suite of security inspections for most Unix systems at the touch of a button.

Public Tools

Following is a collection of pointers to public domain or freely available software tools available on the Internet. The collection is based on the Security Tools and Techniques CD-ROM assembled for the 1994 FIRST conference by David Curry of Purdue University.

Table of Contents

MS-DOS

Network security

System security

Anti-virus packages

Macintosh

Anti-virus packages

Unix

Authentication

Cryptographic checksums

Firewalls

Network monitoring

Network security

System monitoring

General tools

Please Note: The tools described here are provided as-is and are for use at your own risk. Unless otherwise noted, no effort has been made to verify that the software is free from viruses, Trojan horses, or other forms of mailicious programming. No effort has been made to verify that the software performs as its authors claim.