Evaluation of Some Windows and Linux Intrusion Detection Tools

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