Course Code : OSEI-042

Course Title : Securing Internet Access

Maximum Marks : 20

Last date of Submission : As per SED Notification on IGNOU’s website

Question 1: Firewalls can help protect against from some of attacks, but not

all. What other tools available to provide Network security? (10 Marks)

SOLUTION

The prediction says that , Cybercrime damages will cost $6 trillion to the world.

On an individual company level, the financial loss could hurt the company. The

average cost of a cyber-attack is $1.67 million, including productivity and

operational costs. These losses also cause a negative customer experience,

along with other consequences. Hence to manage the results, there are

numerous Network Security Tools present in the market which may save the

company from damages.

List of Network Security Tools:

1. Wireshark

2. Metasploit

3. Nessus

4. AirCrack
5. Snort

6. Cain and Abel

7. BackTrack

8. Netcat

9. Tcpdump

10.John the Ripper

11.Kismet

12.Open SSH/PuTTY/SSH

13.Burp Suite

14.Nikto

15.Hping

16.Ettercap

17.Sysinternals

18.W3af

19.OpenVAS

20.Scapy

21.Ping/telnet/dig/traceroute/whois/netstat

22.THC Hydra

23.Perl/Python/Ruby

24.Paros Proxy
25.NetStumbler

26.Google

27.OSSEC HIDS

28.WebScarab

29.Core Impact

30.SQL Map

31.TruCrypt

32.Dsniff

33.IDA Pro

34.Maltego

35.OphCrack

36.Nexpose

37.Netfilter

38.GnuPG/PGP

39.Skipfish

40.GFI LanGuard

41.Acunetix

42.QualysGuard

43.VMware

44.OllyDbg
45.Ntop

46.MBSA

47.AppScan

48.OSSIM

49.Medusa

50.OpenSSL

51.Canvas

52.FGDump

53.Tor

54.Retina

55.Firefox

56.OpenVPN

57.L0phtCrack

58.Social Engineer Toolkit

59.Yersinia

60.Fiddler

61.Sslstrip

62.SolarWinds

63.Ngrep

64.EtherApe
65.Splunk

66.Angry Ip Scanner

67.NetWitness NextGen

68.Secunia PSI

69.Nagios

70.Immunity Debugger

71.Superscan

72.SQL Ninja

73.Helix

74.Malware Bytes Anti Malware

75.Netsparker

76.HP Webinspect

77.BeEF

78.Argus

79.OpenBSD PF

80.ClamAV

81.Nipper

82.Network Miner

83.Wikto

84.P0f
85.NoScript

86.Sguil

87.Samurai Web Testing Framework

88.Tamper Data

89.Firebug

90.insider

91.Nemesis

92.KeePass

93.GDB

94.Virus Total

95.Tripwire

96.Ratproxy

97.KisMAC

98.IKE-Scan

99.Net Scan Tools

100. cURL

101. The Sleuth Kit

102. WebSecurify

103. Knoppix

104. THC Amap

105. RainbowCrack

106. Grendel Scan

107. Dradis

108. Socat

109. DumpSec

110. SAINT

111. NBTScan

112. DirBuster

113. WinDbg

114. Wfuzz

115. ArcSight SIEM Platform

116. Unicorn Scan

117. Stunnel

118. SELinux

119. Brutus

120. EnCase

121. Wapiti

122. WebGoat

123. HijackThis

124. Honeyd
 125. AIDE

Question 2: What is Web Service Platform? Explain its elements in detail. (10

Marks)

Web 2.0 is different from Web 1.0. It is more than just retrieving information or

contributing contents to the website. Web 2.0 is more about making users

interactive, dynamic on the web platform, giving them a richer set of controls

for interaction and collaboration. Web 2.0 technologies are user-centered

providing collaborative, interactive and communicative infrastructures and

services for the creation and consumption of content. These technologies

change the way the users select and organise available information. In

particular information is not created and classified only by experts or creators

but also by the users. Libraries are already moving into Web 2.0. Thus it would

be interesting to find Web 2.0 applications in the library

Blog-based
Libraries are using blogs to share information; encourage user feedback;

highlight information services; alert users about arrival of new resources or

setting up new facilities; etc. When applied with thought, blogs can be turned

into effective marketing tools minimising the distance between the users and

library. We can easily seek opinions and get input from users and make them

participative and collaborate for improving the user-centered service aspect of

libraries.

RSS-based

Libraries are using RSS feeds to keep up-to-date with blogs, world and local

news, photos, podcasts, weather forecasts, product price changes and sales,

new publications from favourite authors or publishers, social bookmarks,

professional association news, etc. There are hundreds of electronic journals

with RSS feeds alerting users whenever anything new is posted or published.

RSS updates particularly news about the world of writing such as latest books

being published relating to the interests of our patrons.

Wiki-based

Wikis are robust, open-ended, collaborative group sites permitting

asynchronous communication (not real time communication) and group

collaboration across the Internet. They can be viewed as a composition system,

a discussion medium, a repository, a mail system and a tool for collaboration.

They provide users with both author and editor privileges. Educational

institutions are hosting wikis of learning resources for more interactive learning

content and library can chip in this endeavour by linking it with content

available in the library as well as Internet. This may help attract more potential

users to the library’s resource base.