Category Open Source Security

Top 10 Web Log Analyzers

Title: Top 10 Web Log Analyzers Scope of article Today’s web hosting data centers are deployed with multiple web servers, running heterogeneous operating systems architecture. With ever increasing online businesses, it is important to know how many customers are really…

Top 5 Security Assessment Tools

Title: Top 5 Security Assessment Tools While performing a vulnerability scanning against a network, it needs to be done from within the network as well as from external, or simply put, from either sides of the firewall protecting the network.…

Top 3 Network Monitoring Tools

Title: Top 3 Networks Monitoring Tools Scope of article In a well managed IT infrastructure, network monitoring acts as eyes and ears to spot problems before they appear. System administrators need a complete visibility into their critical IT components such…

Securing Xen Virtualization

Title: Securing Xen Virtualization Scope of article The concept of virtualization was created in IT industry to achieve easy management and maintenance of the server infrastructure. While there are many production environments running on robust virtual servers, there are underlying…

Securing SSH Service

Title: Securing SSH Service Scope of article SSH service is very widely used in the open source infrastructure setups. Due to its small footprint on network, as well as ease of installation and maintenance, SSH replaces many remote shells in…

Securing MySQL Server

Title: Cyber Attacks Explained: Securing MySQL Server Scope of article MySQL server is widely used in the open source world. Let it be a small firm’s finance data or a mission critical ERP system, MySQL has its foot print due…

FOSS Built-In Security

Title: Built-in FOSS Security Scope of article When it comes to securing network infrastructure, it is a common trend to invest into commercial grade appliances. It is found that security designers tend to ignore built-in security features available within a…