[PLUG] Network security toolkit

[Matt Alexander]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Mike Neal wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> If you're interested in security, this is very cool.  These guys built a 
> toolkit with most of Fydor's Top 75 Security Tools, a flexible security 
> probe and a security administration package that has minimal hardware 
> requirements. It's a gzipped iso that lets you burn a Red Hat 9 bootable 
> security toolkit.  All the popular stuff, nessus, snort, nmap, ethereal and 
> lots more,  designed for operation from the console or headless from a 
> serial port or remotely through ssh or https. The project includes 
> everything you need to modify the system and build your own iso with 
> changes to the kernel, the packages and tools as well as customizing 
> various configuration settings.  There is plenty of high quality 
> documentation and it's all open source. See:
> www.networksecuritytoolkit.org


There's also Knoppix STD:

http://www.knoppix-std.org/

And Local Area Security Linux:

http://www.localareasecurity.com/