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Open-source solutions in cybersecurity

Open-source solutions in cybersecurity

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Open-source solutions in cybersecurity

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- [Presenter] Many cyber security solutions are opensource and free. Hence, this course makes perfect sense and gets to exist. Good for us. And I introduced the most viable and proven option for each area of cybersecurity challenges. The cyber security domains I cover include Firewalls, Packet and Protocol Analysis, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, or IDS and IPS, vulnerability assessment, logging and monitoring. iptables is what Linux uses to control the flow of data packets in and out of a host or network. Any firewall implementations in Linux pretty much builds on iptables. Knowing iptables is like unlocking the secret code of controlling network packets in general. WireShark is one of the most popular packet sniffers and allows you to intercept (indistinct) packets and inspect them. Many organizations use Wireshark to troubleshoot networking problems, test software and develop protocols. I recommend Snort as a…

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