The paper evaluates some the security tools. Top security tools can be found in http://sectools.org/. Most important vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux can be found in www.sans.org/top20/. The paper covers the installation and configuration of the following security tools:
¥ LANguard
¥ Nessus
¥ Snort
¥ BASE
¥ ACID
¥ Rman
¥ SnortCenter.
¥ OSSEC
¥ Sguil