Useful Links
—— SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENTS ——
US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
- Bulletins provide weekly summaries of new vulnerabilities.
SANS Institute @RISK
- A weekly summary of newly discovered attack vectors, vulnerabilities with active new exploits.
Cisco Security Advisories
- Active security bulletins with associated CVE.
Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories
- Active security bulletins with associated CVE.
—— SOFTWARE RECOMMENDATIONS ——
TeamViewer for remote desktop access and collaboration. Config Toolbox likes this product for small/mid networks and is simply providing a recommendation to help our customers with free or inexpensive software. We don’t make money on this recommendation or URL click. Engineers, not sales people.
PuTTY is a free SSH and telnet client for Windows. Config Toolbox likes this product for small/mid networks and is simply providing a recommendation to help our customers with free or inexpensive software. We don’t make money on this recommendation or URL click. Engineers, not sales people.
Solarwinds Kiwi Syslog Server is inexpensive, but very good and feature rich. Config Toolbox likes this product for small/mid networks and is simply providing a recommendation to help our customers with free or inexpensive software. We don’t make money on this recommendation or URL click. Engineers, not sales people.
Solarwinds CatTools is inexpensive and simple to use, but powerful and will help you with routine management tasks, inventory, reporting, or backups of your network gear. Config Toolbox likes this product for small/mid networks and is simply providing a recommendation to help our customers with free or inexpensive software. We don’t make money on this recommendation or URL click. Engineers, not sales people.
Wireshark is a free network protocol analyzer (aka packet sniffer) and a must-have for any engineer. Config Toolbox likes this product for small/mid networks and is simply providing a recommendation to help our customers with free or inexpensive software. We don’t make money on this recommendation or URL click. Engineers, not sales people.
Nmap is a free security scanner and a good starting point to determine the security posture of your network, or trying to identify a host. Config Toolbox likes this product for small/mid networks and is simply providing a recommendation to help our customers with free or inexpensive software. We don’t make money on this recommendation or URL click. Engineers, not sales people.
iPerf is a free tool to test network throughput by sending maximum data between two hosts. Config Toolbox likes this product for small/mid networks and is simply providing a recommendation to help our customers with free or inexpensive software. We don’t make money on this recommendation or URL click. Engineers, not sales people.
Mturoute is a handy troubleshooting tool to test MTU between source and destination. Config Toolbox likes this product for small/mid networks and is simply providing a recommendation to help our customers with free or inexpensive software. We don’t make money on this recommendation or URL click. Engineers, not sales people.