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Vuurmuur – powerful firewall manager built on top of ​iptables

November 4, 2023 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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ufw – manages a netfilter firewall

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

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

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gufw – manage your firewall

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

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

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iptables – configure the Linux kernel and later packet filtering ruleset

November 4, 2023 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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Shorewall – gateway/firewall configuration tool

November 4, 2023 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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firewalld – dynamically managed firewall

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

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

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nftables – in-kernel packet classification framework

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

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

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lua-resty-waf – High Performance WAF Built on the OpenResty Stack

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

lua-resty-waf is a high performance web application firewall (WAF) written for the OpenResty stack, leveraging the scalable architecture of Nginx, while providing a ModSecurity-compatible rule syntax.

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Coraza – high performance web application firewall

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Coraza Web Application Firewall is an enterprise grade, Golang port of ModSecurity.

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NAXSI – Nginx Anti XSS & SQL Injection

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

NAXSI is a high performance, low rules maintenance web application firewall (WAF) for Nginx. NAXSI is based on a white list approach.

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ModSecurity – Web Application Firewall Engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Security

ModSecurity is an awesome multi-purpose cross-platform web application firewall (WAF).

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Nautilus Flickr Uploader – simple GUI to upload pics to Flickr

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Nautilus Flickr Uploader is a simple, open source graphical user interface to upload pictures to the Flickr service from the Nautilus file browser.

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Shotwell – photo manager for GNOME

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Shotwell is an open source image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

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Frogr – manage accounts in the Flickr image hosting website

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Flickr Remote Organizer (Frogr) is a small open source application for the GNOME desktop that allows users to manage their accounts in Flickr.

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Dancer – simple but powerful web application framework for Perl

November 4, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Dancer is a very simple, lightweight yet powerful web application framework.

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Mojolicious – Perl real-time web framework

November 4, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Mojolicious is billed as a fresh take on Perl web development, based on years of experience developing the Catalyst framework.

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Catalyst – Perl MVC web framework

November 4, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Catalyst is an elegant web application framework, extremely flexible yet very simple. It’s based on a “don’t repeat yourself” principle.

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Incident Response

Iris – flexible service for paging and messaging

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Iris is the automated incident paging system at LinkedIn. Iris is free and open source software written in Python and JavaScript.

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GoAlert – on-call scheduling, automated escalations and notifications

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

GoAlert provides on-call scheduling, automated escalations and notifications (like SMS or voice calls).

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Alertmanager – handles alerts sent by client applications

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

The Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus server.

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