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- [Pre-Configured Mail-Servers](#pre-configured-mail-servers)
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- **Productivity**
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- [Digital Notes](#digital-notes)
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- [Cloud Productivity Suits](#cloud-productivity-suits)
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- [Cloud Productivity Suites](#cloud-productivity-suites)
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- [Backup and Sync](#backup-and-sync)
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- [Encrypted Cloud Storage](#encrypted-cloud-storage)
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- [File Drop](#file-drop)
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**[DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/)** | DuckDuckGo is a very user-friendly, fast and secure search engine. It's totally private, with no trackers, cookies or ads. It's also highly customisable, with dark-mode, many languages and features. They even have a [.onion](https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion) URL, for use with Tor and a [no Javascript version](https://duckduckgo.com/html/)
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**[Qwant](https://www.qwant.com/)** | French service that aggregates Bings results, with its own results. Quant doesn't plant any cookies, nor have any trackers or third-party advertising. It returns non-biased search results, with no promotions. Quant has a unique, but nice UI.
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**[Qwant](https://www.qwant.com/)** | French service that aggregates Bings results, with its own results. Qwant doesn't plant any cookies, nor have any trackers or third-party advertising. It returns non-biased search results, with no promotions. Qwant has a unique, but nice UI.
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**[Startpage](https://www.startpage.com/)** | Dutch search engine that searches on google and shows the results (slightly rearranged). It has several configurations that improve privacy during use (it is not open source)
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#### Notable Mentions
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**[Silent.link](https://silent.link/)** | Anonymous eSIM for sending / receiving SMS, incoming calls and 4G / 5G internet + world-wide roaming. No data is required at sign-up. Affordable pricing, with payments and top-ups accepted in BTC. Requires and eSim-compatible device
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**[Silent.link](https://silent.link/)** | Anonymous eSIM for sending / receiving SMS, incoming calls and 4G / 5G internet + world-wide roaming. No data is required at sign-up. Affordable pricing, with payments and top-ups accepted in BTC. Requires an eSim-compatible device
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**[Crypton.sh](https://crypton.sh/)** | Physical SIM card in the cloud, for sending + receiving SMS messages. Messages are encrypted using your chosen private key. Includes a web interface, as well as an API for interacting with it from any device. Pricing is around €7.00/month, and payment is accepted in BTC, XMR or credit card
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**[Jmp.chat](https://jmp.chat/)** | Phone number for incoming + outgoing calls and messages, provided by Soprani. Works with Jabber, Matrix, Snikket, XMPP or any SIP client. Pricing starts at $2.99 / month. Only available in the US and Canada, as (as of 2022) the service is still in Beta
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**[Mullvad](http://mullvad.net/en/)** | Mullvad is one of the best for privacy, they have a totally anonymous sign up process, you don't need to provide any details at all, you can choose to pay anonymously too (with Monero, BTC or cash)
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**[Azire](https://www.azirevpn.com/)** | Azire is a Swedish VPN provider, who owns their own hardware with physically removed storage and a no logging policy. Pricing starts at €3.25/mo, with crypto (including XMR) supported. Note that they've not yet been audited, and client applications are not open source, for more info, see [#140](https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist/issues/140).
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**[IVPN](https://www.ivpn.net/)** | Independently Security Audited VPN with anonymous signup, no logs, no cloud or customer data stored, open-source apps and website. Strong ethics: no trackers, no false promises, no surveillance ads. Accepts various payment methods including crypotcurrencies.
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**[ProtonVPN](https://protonvpn.com/)** | From the creators of ProtonMail, ProtonVPN has a solid reputation. They have a full suit of user-friendly native mobile and desktop apps. ProtonVPN is one of the few "trustworthy" providers that also offer a free plan
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**[ProtonVPN](https://protonvpn.com/)** | From the creators of ProtonMail, ProtonVPN has a solid reputation. They have a full suite of user-friendly native mobile and desktop apps. ProtonVPN is one of the few "trustworthy" providers that also offer a free plan
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**[OVPN](https://www.ovpn.com/)** | A court-proven VPN service with support for Wireguard and OpenVPN support, and optional ad-blocking. Running on dedicated hardware, with no hard drives
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#### Word of Warning
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## Cloud Hosting
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Whether you are hosting a website and want to keep your users data safe, or if you are hosting your own file backup, cloud productivity suit or VP - then choosing a provider that respects your privacy and allows you to sign up anonymously, and will keep your files and data safe is be important.
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Whether you are hosting a website and want to keep your users data safe, or if you are hosting your own file backup, cloud productivity suite or VP - then choosing a provider that respects your privacy and allows you to sign up anonymously, and will keep your files and data safe is be important.
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For a simple plain text note taking app, with strong encryption, see [Protected Text](https://www.protectedtext.com), which works well with the [Safe Notes](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.protectedtext.android) Android app. [Laverna](https://laverna.cc/) is a cross-platform secure notes app, where all entries are formatted with markdown.
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## Cloud Productivity Suits
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## Cloud Productivity Suites
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**[CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr)** | A zero knowledge cloud productivity suit. Provides Rich Text, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Kanban, Paint a code editor and file drive. All notes and user content, are encrypted by default, and can only be accessed with specific URL. The main disadvantage, is a lack of Android, iOS and desktop apps - CryptPad is entirely web-based. You can use their web service, or you can host your own instance (see [CryptPad GitHub](https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad) repo). Price for hosted: free for 50mb or $5/ month for premium
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**[CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr)** | A zero knowledge cloud productivity suite. Provides Rich Text, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Kanban, Paint a code editor and file drive. All notes and user content, are encrypted by default, and can only be accessed with specific URL. The main disadvantage, is a lack of Android, iOS and desktop apps - CryptPad is entirely web-based. You can use their web service, or you can host your own instance (see [CryptPad GitHub](https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad) repo). Price for hosted: free for 50mb or $5/ month for premium
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**[NextCloud](https://nextcloud.com/)** | A complete self-hosted productivity platform, with a strong community and growing [app store](https://apps.nextcloud.com). NextCloud is similar to (but arguably more complete than) Google Drive, Office 365 and Dropbox, originally it was a fork from [OwnCloud](https://owncloud.org/), but since have diverged. Clear UI and stable native apps across all platforms, and also supports file sync. Supports encrypted files, but you need to configure this yourself. Fully open source, so you can self-host it yourself (or use a hosted solution, starting from $5/ month)
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**[Disroot](https://disroot.org)** | A platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization. It is an implementation of NextCloud, with strong encryption configured - it is widely used by journalists, activists and whistle-blowers. It is fre to use, but there have been reported reliability issues of the cloud services
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**[Disroot](https://disroot.org)** | A platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization. It is an implementation of NextCloud, with strong encryption configured - it is widely used by journalists, activists and whistle-blowers. It is free to use, but there have been reported reliability issues of the cloud services
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**[Sandstorm](https://sandstorm.io/)** | An open source platform for self-hosting web apps. Once you've set it up, you can install items from the Sandstorm [App Market](https://apps.sandstorm.io/) with -click, similar to NextCloud in terms of flexibility
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**[Vikunja](https://vikunja.io)** | Vikunja is an open-source to-do application. It is suitable for a wide variety of projects, supporting List, Gantt, Table and Kanban views to visualize all tasks in different contexts. For collaboration, it has sharing support via private teams or public links. It can be self-hosted or used as a managed service for a small fee.
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[NextCloud Bookmarks](https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks) has several community browser extensions, inducing [FreedomMarks](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/freedommarks/) (Firefox) and [OwnCloud Bookmarks](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/owncloud-bookmarks/eomolhpeokmbnincelpkagpapjpeeckc) (Chrome).
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Finally, [Turtl Notes](https://turtlapp.com) has excellent link saving functionality built-in
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[RainDrop](https://raindrop.io) is a fully-featured all-in-1 bookmarking and web-snip suit. It has a beautiful UI, good data controls and some very handy integrations and features. Available on desktop, mobile, web and through a browser extension. The catch is that it is not open source, there is a free and premium plan, but no option for self-hosting.
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[RainDrop](https://raindrop.io) is a fully-featured all-in-1 bookmarking and web-snip suite. It has a beautiful UI, good data controls and some very handy integrations and features. Available on desktop, mobile, web and through a browser extension. The catch is that it is not open source, there is a free and premium plan, but no option for self-hosting.
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#### Word of Warning
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Strip out unneeded GET parameters if they reveal any device or referrer information, so as to not inadvertently allow a website to link your devices. [ClearURLs](https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls) may help with this.
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**[nwipe](https://github.com/martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe)** (Cross-platform) | C-based secure light-weight disk eraser, operated through the easy-to-use CLI or a GUI interface
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**[shred](https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shred-invocation.html)** (Unix) | A CLI utility that can be used to securely delete files and devices, to make them extremely difficult to recover. See also, [wipe](https://linux.die.net/man/1/wipe) for erasing files from magnetic media
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**[Secure Remove](https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-srm/)** (Unix) | CLI utility for securely removing files, directories and whole disks, works on Linux, BSD and MacOS
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**[Mr. Phone](https://drfone.wondershare.com)** (Android/ iOS) | Propriety, closed-source suit of forensic data tools for mobile. The data eraser allows for both Android and iOS to be fully wiped, through connecting them to a PC.
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**[Mr. Phone](https://drfone.wondershare.com)** (Android/ iOS) | Propriety, closed-source suite of forensic data tools for mobile. The data eraser allows for both Android and iOS to be fully wiped, through connecting them to a PC.
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There's no need to use a third-party tool. You can boot into a UNIX-based system, mount the disk you need to erase, and use a command to write it with arbitrary data. For best results, this process should be repeated several times. This is a good way to wipe a disk, before selling or destroying it, to protect your data.
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Without moderation, some of these platforms accommodate video creators whose content may not be appropriate for all audiences
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#### YouTube Proxies
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The content on many of the smaller video sites, often just doesn't compare to YouTube. So another alternative, is to access YouTube through a proxy client, which reduces what Google can track).
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The content on many of the smaller video sites, often just doesn't compare to YouTube. So another alternative, is to access YouTube through a proxy client, which reduces what Google can track.
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- Good options are: [Invidious](https://invidious.io/) (web), [Piped](https://piped.kavin.rocks) (web), [FreeTube](https://freetubeapp.io/) (Windows, Mac OS, Linux), [NewPipe](https://newpipe.schabi.org/) (Android), [YouTube++](https://iosninja.io/ipa-library/download-youtube-plus-ipa-ios) (iOS)
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- Or download videos with [youtube-dl](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/) (cli) or [youtube-dl-gui](https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui) (gui). For just audio, there is [PodSync](https://podsync.net/)
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**[Qubes OS](https://www.qubes-os.org/)** (containerized apps) | Open-source security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. It uses virtualisation, to run each application in its own compartment to avoid data being leaked. It features [Split GPG](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/split-gpg/), [U2F Proxy](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/u2f-proxy/), and [Whonix integration](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/whonix/). Qubes makes is easy to create [disposable VMs](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/disposablevm/) which are spawned quickly and destroyed when closed. Qubes is [recommended](https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/781493632293605376) by Edward Snowden
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**[Whonix](https://www.whonix.org/)** (VM) | Whonix is an anonymous operating system, which can run in a VM, inside your current OS. It is the best way to use Tor, and provides very strong protection for your IP address. It comes bundled with other features too: Keystroke Anonymization, Time Attack Defences, Stream Isolation, Kernel Self Protection Settings and an Advanced Firewall. Open source, well audited, and with a strong community - Whonix is based on Debian, [KickSecure](https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Kicksecure) and [Tor](https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix_and_Tor)
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**[Tails](https://tails.boum.org/)** (live) | Tails is a live operating system (so you boot into it from a USB, instead of installing). It preserves your privacy and anonymity through having no persistent memory/ leaving no trace on the computer. Tails has Tor built-in system-wide, and uses state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging. Open source, and built on top of Debian. Tails is simple to stop, configure and use
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**[Parrot](https://parrotlinux.org/)** (security)| Parrot Linux, is a full Debian-based operating system, that is geared towards security, privacy and development. It is fully-featured yet light-weight, very open. There are 3 editions: General Purpose, Security and Forensic. The Secure distribution includes its own sandbox system obtained with the combination of [Firejail](https://firejail.wordpress.com/) and [AppArmor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor) with custom security profiles. While the Forensics Edition is bundled with a comprehensive suit of security/ pen-testing tools, similar to Kali and Black Arch
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**[Parrot](https://parrotlinux.org/)** (security)| Parrot Linux, is a full Debian-based operating system, that is geared towards security, privacy and development. It is fully-featured yet light-weight, very open. There are 3 editions: General Purpose, Security and Forensic. The Secure distribution includes its own sandbox system obtained with the combination of [Firejail](https://firejail.wordpress.com/) and [AppArmor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor) with custom security profiles. While the Forensics Edition is bundled with a comprehensive suite of security/ pen-testing tools, similar to Kali and Black Arch
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**[Discreete Linux](https://www.privacy-cd.org/)** (offline)| Aimed at journalists, activists and whistle-blowers, Discreete Linux is similar to Tails, in that it is booted live from external media, and leaves no/ minimal trace on the system. The aim of the project, was to provide all required cryptographic tools offline, to protect against Trojan-based surveillance
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**[Alpine Linux](https://www.alpinelinux.org/)** | Alpine is a security-oriented, lightweight distro based on musl libc and busybox. It compiles all user-space binaries as position-independent executables with stack-smashing protection. Install and setup may be quite complex for some new users
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- Email Setup: [Mailu](https://mailu.io), [MailCow](https://mailcow.email), [Mail-in-a-Box](https://mailinabox.email)
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- File Drop: [PsiTransfer](https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer), [Up1](https://github.com/Upload/Up1), [FilePizza](https://file.pizza)
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- File Explorer: [FileRun](https://filerun.com), [Pydio](https://pydio.com)
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- Groupware: [SoGo](https://github.com/inverse-inc/sogo), [SuitCRM](https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM)
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- Groupware: [SoGo](https://github.com/inverse-inc/sogo), [SuiteCRM](https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM)
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- News Letters: [LewsNetter](https://github.com/bborn/lewsnetter), [PHP List](https://www.phplist.com), [Dada Mail](https://github.com/justingit/dada-mail)
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- Office Suits: [CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr), [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org), [onlyoffice](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE), [NextCloud](https://nextcloud.com)
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- Office Suites: [CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr), [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org), [onlyoffice](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE), [NextCloud](https://nextcloud.com)
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- Paste Bins: [Snibox](https://snibox.github.io), [PrivateBin](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin), [0bin](https://github.com/sametmax/0bin), [Stikked](https://github.com/claudehohl/Stikked)
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- Photo Managers: [PhotoPrism](https://photoprism.app/)
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- Search Engine: [Searx](https://searx.github.io/searx/)
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- [Kali Linux] - A Debian-based distro for security testing, bundled with 1000's of powerful packages and scripts. Saves a lot of time configuring sys-admin tools and drivers
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- [Lynis] - A security tool that performs an extensive health scan of your systems to support system hardening and compliance testing
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- [Masscan] - TCP port scanner, that checks packets asynchronously, configure it to check only your IP ranges and it completes in milliseconds
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- [Metasploit] - Popular and powerful penetration testing framework, for exploitation and vulnerability validation - bundled with a full suit of tools, it makes it easy to divide your penetration testing workflow into manageable sections. Very useful for testing your entire network E2E
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- [Metasploit] - Popular and powerful penetration testing framework, for exploitation and vulnerability validation - bundled with a full suite of tools, it makes it easy to divide your penetration testing workflow into manageable sections. Very useful for testing your entire network E2E
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- [Moloch] - Full packet capture, indexing, and database system. The elastic search backend makes searching through pcaps fast, and the frontend displays captured data clearly with good support for protocol decoding
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- [Nikto2] - Well-established web server testing tool, useful for firing at your web server to find known vulnerable scripts, configuration mistakes and related security problems
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- [Nmap] - Powerful utility for network discovery and security auditing. Useful for your network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime
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- [OSSEC HIDS] - A host based intrusion detection system that is easy to setup and configure, which performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response
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- [Otseca] - Search and dump your system configuration + generate HTML reports
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- [RouterSploit]: An exploitation framework for checking the security of local embedded devices, to ensure they are safe
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- [Security Onion] - Linux distro for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes a suit of security testing tools. Useful for collecting, storing and managing a variety of system data, for use on your networks
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- [Security Onion] - Linux distro for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes a suite of security testing tools. Useful for collecting, storing and managing a variety of system data, for use on your networks
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- [Snort] - Intrusion detection system aimed at real time traffic analysis and packet logging tool
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- [SPARTA] - GUI tool that makes pen testing your network infrastructure easier
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- [Wireshark] - Popular, powerful feature-rich network protocol analyser. Lets you analyse everything that is going on in your network in great detail
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