Useful Software

26th September 2019

Software I use Daily:

Wazuh Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) small client installed on workstations that reports back to central server. Finds internal vulnerabilities

PRTG Monitor; free for up to 100 devices. Nice auto scan for services. no client required. Useful info in 15min.

TailScale.com lets anyone setup a WireGuard based Peer-to-peer VPN. It can use smart routing to connect through double NAT, it knows some services that are running on the connected machines (ie RDP) and you can set Access controls (to create a hub-and-spoke) it supports “magic” DNS so you can reliably get to the same PC even if the IP changes. Free for up to 50 connections.
This is an excellent tool for small businesses to keep track of laptops during work-from-home. back them up, inventory installed software, force a virus scan, reset a locked account, use RDP to troubleshoot etc.

WinGet windows package manager pre-installed on Win10+. Install and keep programs updated from a command line. Winget upgrade –all

Software I use Occasionally:

NMAP; fast subnet scanner, requires WinPcap or NpCap

PingCastle will do an Active Directory audit and spit out a lovely HTML report. its a command line tool but super easy to use. Free!

Pfsense/Netgate turn some old PC hardware into a very nice firewall for free.

Sw I have used or someone smart has recommended to me:

Spiceworks; Hardware/Software Inventory. Required for many certifications.

AlienVault; EUBA End User Behavioral Analysis. Detect odd behavior of malware/insider threats.

OpenVAS; Vulnerability Scanner. Scan workstations & servers for security problems. No client required.

Angry IP scanner; minimal information but portable and doesn’t require special drivers.

NirSoft NetBScanner; scan your subnet for NetBios. NetBios should be turned off in a Domain environment. NirSoft makes a bunch of useful tools.

MailSniper is a tool to test eMail passwords.

McAfee tool to scan suspicious files here

LDAP Account Manager for Linux – testing on RasPi currently…more info to come

Univention – User friendly SSO + LDAP based on Linux. Free with limits. Comes as a VM

3df Zyphr can create a 3d model of an object using no special hardware

LetsView mirrors the screen of an iPhone or Android device to your PC. Good for creating documentation

Burp Suite SQL injection and Fuzzing websites. Community edition available.

ShowKeyPlus shows OEM and Installed windows keys

https://github.com/WeeJeWel/wg-easy/blob/master/README.md this is a script that makes a nice web page to manage WireGuard peer-to-peer VPN. Consider this if you manage over 50 laptops. not as refined as TailScale but its a good free option.

WireGuard installs on iPhone and Android, looking for some software that manages these devices over IP…

ADTidy is an easy to use GUI that does some common searches on your Active Directory to find stale users and computers, and can even help disable or delete them.

Microsoft Power Automate an intelligent GUI to automate tasks. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2102613

HEVC (free at link provided) and HEIF (free from the M$ store) video codecs

https://www.casaos.io/ casaOS for Linux allows 1 click installation of a bunch of apps and a nice webpage for remote admin

https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html CPUID monitors hardware temperature, great for troubleshooting intermittent problems. Finds more temperature stats than other software. available in portable version.

Blazam is a Web interface to process changes to Active Directory. Still Beta but hopefully it will allow User self-service password reset. Demo

X-Mouse remap mouse buttons because carpal tunnel. Intellipoint only works w m$ mice.