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Slideshow: Ten Free Security Monitoring Tools

By Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer 11/08/2010

Understanding the ins and outs of how your users interact with the infrastructure, tracking security events and keeping logs for auditing purposes are activities that don't necessarily require buckets of cash for expensive monitoring systems. Many a scrappy organization has managed to cobble together a host of open source and free tools that will give them enough visibility to keep their environments reasonably protected and perform the necessary forensics when events do slip through the cracks. The actual deployment of these tools isn't necessarily free, though. No matter which monitoring route an organization chooses, it still takes a lot of man-hours and brainpower to sift through data, pinpoint potential problems and proactively harden the infrastructure. Here are ten free security monitoring tools:
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1. Zenoss

Zenoss is an enterprise-class open source server and network monitoring solution that distinguishes itself through its virtualization and cloud monitoring capabilities, which are frequently difficult to find in older free monitoring tools.

Zenoss display, screen shot first published on webAJ.com


                   


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