Five Leading Open Source Security Projects for Network Safeguarding

Data security is always top of mind for CIOs and CSOs, and there is no shortage of challenges when it comes to picking the right tool for the job. With network and software vulnerabilities growing at a perpetual rate, good security software can help defend against many of the large-scale threats that occur locally and from all over the Internet. In this edition of 5 open source things to watch, we take a look at security products that will guard against threats without robbing your kitty.

1. PacketFence

PacketFence is an open source Network Access Control (NAC) system for wired and wireless networks developed by Canadian company Inverse.

PacketFence integrates with the Snort intrusion detection system and the Nessus vulnerability scanner and is managed out-of-band.

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