CSO: 5 'Great' Open-source Desktop Security Applications

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Security practitioner Joseph Guarino lists five security desktop tools that will make your security program much more effective.

By Joseph Guarino, CISSP, LPIC
March 26, 2010

Contributions from free and open software makers can be found throughout the tech world. From your data centre to the desktop and everywhere in between; there's an open solution to your computing needs. This is no less true in information security. My focus in this article is the several outstanding information security desktop tools that personify the innovation and ingenuity of the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) world. Please keep in mind that all of these applications (except one) are cross platform so you can find appropriate versions on whatever you run (BSD, Mac OSX, Linux or Windows). The examples herein, however, will be catered to the largest install base (statistically): Microsoft Windows.

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