[rescue] Do you remember when? Security software.....

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:27:58PM -0400, Michael A. Turner wrote:
> 	What I am trying to remember now is the other programs people have
> mentioned for doing security auditing. The subject has come up at work again
> and they are looking to hire a company monthly to do the auditing. I want to
> be able to cut them off at the pass by either A. Doing the job better than
> them saving us money, or B. Debunking them by calling shenanigans by
> recognizing the software that they are running. So can anyone though out any
> good software packages in this area? Also some good intrusion detection
> software wouldn't hurt also. 

Look at nmap and snort, for starters.  And there's tripwire, but you'll
have to pay for it.  Bacula, however, can be configured to do a
tripwire-like job since it maintains hashes in either MD5 or SHA1 of
every file on every target system.


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