osquery: Ask Your Infrastructure Questions — and Actually Get Answers Most systems hide what they’re doing behind layers of logs, daemons, and config files. osquery flips that. It turns your operating system into a queryable database — one where processes, users, open ports, and even kernel modules become rows in a table. Need to find all running processes with a specific parent? Or all machines where /etc/shadow was modified in the last hour? With osquery, it’s a SELECT statement away.
Security Onion: Full-Spectrum Network Defense Without the Vendor Lock-in Most security stacks feel like a patchwork — bits of open source glued together with commercial glue. Security Onion flips that model on its head. It’s a complete Linux distribution built specifically for network security monitoring, intrusion detection, and log analysis. And the best part? It’s free and open. It’s not just a toolkit. It’s a full environment — preconfigured, tightly integrated, and ready to drop into real-w
ClamWin: The Kind of Antivirus That Doesn’t Get in Your Way Let’s be honest — most antivirus tools these days feel more like sales platforms than security software. Popups, telemetry, cloud sync, “premium” upgrades… it’s a lot. ClamWin doesn’t do any of that. It’s quiet, old-school, and incredibly straightforward. You install it. It scans what you ask it to. That’s basically the deal. No background processes chewing up memory, no pushing subscriptions, no trying to “optimize” your PC without p
Zeek: Not Just Packets — Patterns, Context, and a Ton of Clues There’s a big difference between seeing packets and understanding what they mean. That’s where Zeek comes in. It doesn’t just capture traffic — it breaks it down, slices it up, and hands you a detailed report of what really happened on the wire. It’s not flashy. No popups. No dashboards. Just structured logs that make sense — DNS queries, SSL certificates, weird HTTP headers, broken protocols. All there, line by line.
