Gladinet

Gladinet allows access to cloud storage services such as Microsoft’s Skydrive and Amazon’s S3 as a local drive.  A free version is available.

http://www.gladinet.com/

Netzob

Netzob is an open-source tool which supports the expert in its operations of reverse engineering, evaluation and simulation of communication protocols.  Netzob supports the expert in a semi-automatic inferring process of any communication protocol.

http://www.netzob.org/

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture

PST Capture is used to discover and import Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) File Format files into Exchange Server and Exchange Online.  PST Capture helps an organization that wishes to gain more control over their email data repositories by placing them into Exchange.  By optionally installing PST Capture Agents on target machines, administrators can determine where .pst files are located and who their file owner is via the PST Capture Console.  Administrators can import .pst files via Import Lists to Exchange Server or Exchange Online.  Data can be directly imported into the primary mailbox or associated archive mailbox.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28767

Password Safe

Password Safe is an open-source password manager similar to KeePass.

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

Security Onion

Security Onion is a Linux distro for IDS (Intrusion Detection) and NSM (Network Security Monitoring).  It's based on Xubuntu 10.04 and contains Snort, Suricata, Sguil, Squert, argus, Xplico, tcpreplay, scapy, hping, and many other security tools.  The main web site for the project is http://securityonion.blogspot.com/.

The screen captures below were taken from installing the distribution within a VMware Workstation environment.  After the initial installation has completed, access a terminal window and execute the following command as root to update the OS:

apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade

This process may take some time to download.  Once completed, the components of the Security Onion will need to be updated.  On the web site, a link is present concerning updates.

The page should have a command that you can copy and paste into a terminal window.

Once all components are updated, a icon should be present on the desktop called Setup.  This should launch a configuration wizard.

An advanced or quick setup option should be available.

Below are some of the screens of the setup wizard.

A summary screen should eventually appear.

Back on the desktop, access the Snorby icon.

Log into the web interface of the application.

To view alerts, click on the Events menu option.

In reviewing the details of an alert, a button is available to display the rule that generated the entry.

More options are available via the main menu.

The /etc/snort/snort.conf file may need to be modified to include the IP range on the network in question.

The FAQ section on the web site includes more configuration hints.

Shotty

Shotty is a screen capture utility for Windows that includes an integrated image editor.  During the installation process, a portable option is available.

http://shotty.devs-on.net/

vCenter Database Pre-Upgrade Checker

The vCenter Database Pre-Upgrade Checker is a utility to use on your current vCenter Server database to reveal problems that could prevent the upgrade or affect the performance of your database after the upgrade.  A KB article with details on the tool can be found at http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2004286.

DBPreUpgradeChecker.zip

Observium

Observium is an auto discovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and many more.  Observium is not intended to replace an up/down alerting system, but rather to complement it with an easy to manage, intuitive representation of historical and current performance statistics, configuration, visualization, and syslog capture.

www.observium.org

ISO to USB

ISO to USB is a free and small software that can burn the ISO image file directly to the USB drives, these USB drives include USB flash drives, memory sticks and other USB storage devices, it also supports to create a bootable USB disk with Windows operating systems.

http://www.isotousb.com/

smtp4dev

Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2010 compatible dummy SMTP server. Sits in the system tray and does not deliver the received messages. The received messages can be quickly viewed, saved and the source/structure inspected. Useful for testing/debugging software that generates email.

http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/