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Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:40:03 -0700
National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:40:03 -0700
National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:40:03 -0700
National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
Microsoft, eat your own dog food
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:06:12 -0700
"Eating your own dog food" is an odd software development-related term that describes the importance of ensuring that your own developers use the technology they are creating. When Microsoft has hewed closed to this principle, their products have achieved dominant market shares. Unfortunately, Microsoft is not applying this...
Microsoft, eat your own dog food
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:06:12 -0700
"Eating your own dog food" is an odd software development-related term that describes the importance of ensuring that your own developers use the technology they are creating. When Microsoft has hewed closed to this principle, their products have achieved dominant market shares. Unfortunately, Microsoft is not applying this...
Microsoft, eat your own dog food
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:06:12 -0700
"Eating your own dog food" is an odd software development-related term that describes the importance of ensuring that your own developers use the technology they are creating. When Microsoft has hewed closed to this principle, their products have achieved dominant market shares. Unfortunately, Microsoft is not applying this...

 

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GASP! -- Georgetown Automated Solaris Patchtool - Automate Sun's Patchdiag tool with a command-line or X-Windows interface.
Meta Description: [ Automated the process of finding, downloading, and installing patches from SunSolve on Solaris with a command-line or GUI interface. ]

GNU Privacy Guard - OpenPGP (RFC2440) implementation from the GNU project. Encrypts/decrypts/signs/digests files using strong cryptography. FAQ, downloads, documentation.
Meta Description: [ GnuPG.org - GNU Privacy Guard Home Page ]

LBNL's Network Research Group - Tools such as tcpdump and traceroute.

LogSurfer - Allows improved monitoring and alerting based on the contents of system logs.
Meta Description: [ DFN-CERT Services GmbH, DFN-PCA, DFN-FWL: Computer Notfallteam für Rechnersicherheit und zur Schließung von IT-Sicherheitslücken. Policy Certification Authority: Instanz für Wurzelzertifikate, PGP-Zertifikate und SSL-Zertifkate. ]

lsof - lsof is a tool for examining I/O channels open on your Unix system. These can include files, FIFOs and network sockets. This information can be extremely useful for security and a variety of other purposes. Works on most Unix-like systems.
Meta Description: [ freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform open source software. Thousands of applications are meticulously cataloged in the freshmeat database, and links to new code are added daily. ]

mcrypt - A replacement for the unix crypt, using several block algorithms in several modes like cbc, and cfb.
Meta Description: [ Mcrypt file encryption program for unix, and libmcrypt a crypto library. ]

404 Netpassword - Changing passwords safely across the net.

NMAP Network Scanner - Efficient stealth port scanner. Downloads, e-mail lists, news.
Meta Description: [ Network Security Tools/Software (Free Download) including Nmap Open Source Network Security Scanner; Redhat Linux,Microsoft Windows,FreeBSD,UNIX Hacking. ]

North American Cryptography Archives - Strong cryptographic software, libraries, and information about cryptography, data security, and privacy.
Meta Description: [ Strong cryptographic software, libraries, and information about cryptography, data security, and privacy. ]

OpenSSH - Portable Distribution - Open source implementation of SSH1 and SSH2 protocols. Ported from OpenBSD by the OpenSSH portability team.
Meta Description: [ the OpenSSH project portable version page ]

OpenSSL - The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide.

Pidentd - Daemon implementing IDENT protocol, it can be used to identify the user who initiated a TCP/IP connection

Postfix Mail Transfer Agent - Drop-in Sendmail replacement by Wietse Venema. Offers several features that make it difficult to crack.

S4Software - Use Secure4Privilege for complete access control to commands and scripts without giving out the root password.
Meta Description: [ Unix Security;Specializing in Unix Administration, including, Unix and NT Account Synchronization, Root Privilege, User Account Administration, Systems Management, User Security, Intrusion Detection, System Auditing and Password Synchronization ]

SAINT - (Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool) Scans systems and networks and reports potential vulnerabilities.

Sudo - Run selected commands as root, with the users' own password. Allows the administrator to grant limited root privileges to a subset of users, without giving out the root password.
Meta Description: [ sudo main page ]

sudoscript - A pair of Perl scripts that provide an audited root shell using sudo and script(1). Tarballs, RPM's and individual components.

Symark Software - Execute root-level commands and shell scripts without having to actually login as root. Control which users can log in and under which circumstances.
Meta Description: [ Unix Linux security management solutions for systems access control and identity management ]

The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) - The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) provides post-break-in data collection that could be useful in determining what happened. Less polished that the authors (Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema) usual work, the toolkit offers a patch-work of tools that help exhume interesting stuff from violated systems. Should be installed and examined before a break-in happens!

The SUS Home Page - SUS is a utility to allow a user (typically a system administrator) to run a single command as the super user.

Tripwire Inc. - Commercial version of the original Unix file integrity scanner. Calculates and stores signatures of file permissions, ownership and contents. Scans the same files later, detecting changes.
Meta Description: [ Tripwire Change Auditing solutions enable visibility and control, which provide enterprises increased IT availability, lowered costs and reduced operational risk. ]

500 Tripwire Open Source - Open source version of the original Unix file integrity scanner. Calculates and stores signatures of file permissions, ownership and contents. Scans the same files later, detecting changes. This open source version is targeted at Linux systems.