RE: free hIDS, or system assessment tools

["Malik Khan" <akhan () manpowernc com>]

Try Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V1.2.1
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx 

-----Original Message-----
From: H Carvey [mailto:keydet89 () yahoo com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:46 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: free hIDS, or system assessment tools

In-Reply-To: <65C9FE56B1EB304EA8BC65A50F218C272D53CF () HOMAIL01 alrajhi bank>

> Is there any free System Assessment tools for windows and *nix Is there 
> any free System or host IDS for windows and *nix

There are a couple of (free) ways to go about this, particularly on Windows
systems...

For system assessment, I'd recommend:
nmap - http://www.insecure.org
ATK - http://www.computec.ch/projekte/atk/

If you know what you're assessing against, Perl can be used to implement WMI
as well as make other calls to the system in order to obtain the necessary
information for your assessment...and even update the system to bring it in
compliance.

Perl can also be used to implement free monitoring/hIDS.  For example, if
you set your audit policy appropriately, use something like wmievt.pl
(http://patriot.net/~carvdawg/perl.html) to send Event Log entries off of
the system as they are generated.  From the same site, you can use FSW.pl to
watch for file system changes. 

HTH,

H. Carvey
http://www.windows-ir.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/windowsir/

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