Recommended Tools

IDS (Intrusion Detection System)

  • Osiris (not perfect, but better than the rest and sensibly designed)
  • AIDE (horrible configuration)
  • Tripwire (was commercial only when I evaluated)
  • Samhain (horrific compilation and dubious security methods)

CMS (Content Management System)

  • Drupal
  • Joomla
  • DotCMS

Configuration management

  • Puppet
  • CFEngine
  • Bcfg2
  • Spacewalk (was Redhat provisioning)