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12 Best Free and Open Source Firewall Tools

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security, System Software

We recommend free and open source firewall tools.

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nftables – in-kernel packet classification framework

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

nftables replaces the popular {ip,ip6,arp,eb}tables. This software also provides libnftables.

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firewalld – dynamically managed firewall

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network/firewall zones.

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iptables – configure the Linux kernel and later packet filtering ruleset

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

iptables is a user space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the Netfilter tables, chains, and rules.

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ufw – manages a netfilter firewall

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

ufw stands for Uncomplicated Firewall. This is software for managing a netfilter firewall.

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Shorewall – gateway/firewall configuration tool

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as “Shorewall”, is an open source firewall tool that builds upon the Netfilter.

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gufw – manage your firewall

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

gufw is a graphical user interface for Ubuntu’s Uncomplicated Firewall.

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Vuurmuur – powerful firewall manager built on top of ​iptables

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

Vuurmuur is a powerful firewall manager built on top of iptables on Linux. It has a simple and easy to learn configuration that allows simple and complex configurations.

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Exosphere – aggregated patch and security update reporting

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

Exosphere is a CLI and Text UI driven application that offers aggregated patch and security update reporting.

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cariddi – scanning tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Take a list of domains, crawl urls and scan for endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.

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Anti-Malware Tools

YARA-X – re-incarnation of YARA

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

YARA-X is a re-incarnation of YARA, a pattern matching tool designed with malware researchers in mind.

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Security

Kanha – web-app pentesting suite

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

With kanha you can do Fuzzing, Reverse dns lookup, common http response, subdomain takeover detection and many more.

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Security

PRS – web security scanner

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

PRS is a CLI-based scanner focused on safe assessment of web targets.

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Encrypted Files

rsecure – AES-GCM file encryption and decryption tool

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

rsecure is a command-line tool for AES-GCM file encryption and decryption. Aimed at protecting sensitive files, backups, and personal data.

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14 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Conceal messages in other messages.

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Security

Envy – manage secrets

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

Envy is a single binary that gives you both a slick TUI for browsing secrets and a CLI for automation.

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Security

Chamber – secrets manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms Security, TUI

Chamber is a secure, local-first secrets manager, featuring encrypted storage, intuitive terminal UI, and import/export capabilities.

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Technology

Rooks – steganographic tool

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Rook Stego is a steganographic tool that implements some of the most advanced hiding methods.

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Intrusion Detection

9 Best Free and Open Source Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

An intrusion detection system is a device or software application that monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations.

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Security

6 Best Free and Open Source Web Application Firewalls

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security, System Software

A web application firewall (WAF) is a type of application firewall that lets you see and analyze HTTP traffic to and from a web application. We recommend our favourite WAFs.

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