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Re: Open source security tools list

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post #9

strg+f Wireguard: 0/0 I guess maintaining recommendation lists is hard.

Yeah, I saw. Also, Wazuh (as "WAZUH") is mentioned as SIEM right under OSSEC (which it forked) but then it isn't mentioned under HIDS whereas OSSEC is. I don't see Ghidra or Kali mentioned either.

Re: Open source security tools list

#12
Yesterday I needed a regex fuzzer but couldn't find any (except some Windows SDL whatever that means, I'm not developing on Windows) In the end I just created a very limited whitelist of input characters allowed and didn't use a "security tool"

Re: Open source security tools list

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post #12

Yesterday I needed a regex fuzzer but couldn't find any (except some Windows SDL whatever that means, I'm not developing on Windows) In the end I just created a very limited whitelist of input characters allowed and didn't use a "security tool"

You can use grammarinator or any other of myriad grammar fuzzers BUT I'd start with radamsa and its string-related flags. Radamsa is _awesome_, you run it on an input and you get mutated output. Works both for binary files and text fles (such as grammars).

Re: Open source security tools list

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A lot of these "awesome" lists are maybe reasonably OK on first-publish, but ultimately become useless due to:

1. Lack of curation (focus on including everything rather than being opinionated)

2. Lack of updates (tools get out of date fast, especially in long lists that try and include everything).

However, THIS list is different. This list is BAD on first publish. Most of the categories are not even remotely security related ("Project Management") or at least not explicitly so ("Supply Chain Management" / "Docker UI" / "Configuration Management"). Yeah sure, some of the latter will be useful for blue teams, but noone on any blue team is going to be searching for those tools under the keyword "security".

Beyond the above, things get worse: the formatting is hopeless, many of the tools are not open-source at all, and while including a lot of irrelevant non-security-related stuff, it omits many obvious well-known security tools.

Flagged for marketing this as "Open source"

Re: Open source security tools list

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post #16

I try to do something similar with Threat Intel / OSINT tooling at http://www.threat-intel.xyz . List gets regular updated and curated by hand.

This is great. Producing lists like this that are good & useful is not easy: what you've done by focusing on threat intel (instead of broad/generic "security" heading) seems a very good approach.

Re: Open source security tools list

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post #3

I find such lists nigh unto useless. I don't have time to evaluate each project to see which one is the right fit for my needs. We'd be better off if people did a deep dive analysis of just one of those categories. I suspect that whoever constructs these types of lists does NOT have experience with each project, and thus there's bound to be plenty of projects that don't deserve to be on the list because they're just…

Correct. Also, I've viewed many so-called 'awesome' lists that have out of date, abandoned, discredited, links. Copy Pasted? By all means take a look, but use some perspicacity.

The worst thing about "awesome" lists is that they're not searchable and as you say, they tend to have out of date links.

Re: Open source security tools list

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This has the lowest signal to noise ratio of any of these lists of I've seen so far. That entire project management section should go. The entire section on configuration management should go. There are probably some good tools here but I'm not going to click on each and every one just in case it's something more interesting than Trello.
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