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Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download (for genuine Windows) from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

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FortiClient™ standard edition offers one of the most comprehensive security suites for your PC available – including a full range of Fortinet threat protections for PCs and laptops, even when used on insecure public networks. This free download provides SSL and IPSec VPN, a personal firewall, antivirus/antispyware scanning, Intrusion Prevention and web filtering. FortiGate™ users complete their network security framework with Endpoint Control, Application Detection and WAN Optimization. Automatic updates from the FortiGuard™ subscription service ensure protection against the latest threats.

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Blue Coat’s K9 Web Protection is a free Internet and parental controls filter that gives parents control over their family’s use of the Internet. It enables parents to monitor and control what sites their children access and enables them to block offensive or potentially dangerous sites. K9 Web Protection relies on the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat enterprise customers around the world, and is wrapped in a simple, easy-to-manage software application that is compatible with both Mac and PC computers. To protect against newly discovered threats, K9 Web Protection is continuously updated by the WebPulse™ service, the Blue Coat cloud-based community watch environment that also updates Blue Coat WebFilter™ and ProxyClient® enterprise products. In this community watch environment, the identification of malware by one member is shared with all to prevent infections or other harm.

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(IN)SECURE Magazine (a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics) Issue 22 is out.

Articles in this issue include:

- Using real-time events to drive your network scans
- Review: Data Locker
- The Nmap project: Open source with style
- Enterprise effectiveness of digital certificates: Are they ready for prime-time?
- A look at geolocation, URL shortening and top Twitter threats
- How “fake stuff” can make you more secure
- Making clouds secure
- Q&A: Dr. Herbert Thompson on security ROI and RSA Conference
- Book review – Cyber Crime Fighters: Tales from the Trenches
- Top 5 myths about wireless protection
- Securing the foundation of IT systems
- A layered approach to making your Web application a safer environment
- In mashups we trust?
- Adopting the security best practice of least privilege
- Is your data recovery provider a data security problem?
- New strategies for establishing a comprehensive lifetime data protection program
- Security for multi-enterprise applications
- EU data breach notification proposals: How will your business be affected?
- Book review – 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
- Safety in the cloud: How CIOs can ensure the safety of their data as they migrate to cloud applications
- Vulnerability management

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IP address management freeware is a complete solution with the complete feature set of the Infoblox IP address manager, including Smart Folders, Network Map (with subnet management) and leading IPv6 capabilities. 

IPAM freeware from Infoblox allows you to:
• Store specific data filters and get dynamic, real-time results;
• Quickly visualize blocks of network address space and manage subnets with up to 500 IP addresses; and
• Better manage your migration to IPv6.

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HttpWatch is an HTTP viewer and debugger that integrates with IE and Firefox to provide seamless HTTP and HTTPS monitoring without leaving the browser window. All web applications make extensive use of the HTTP protocol (or HTTPS for secure sites). Even simple web pages require the use of multiple HTTP requests to download HTML, graphics and javascript. The ability to view the HTTP interaction between the browser and web site is crucial to these areas of web development:
• Trouble shooting
• Performance tuning
• Verifying that a site is secure and does not expose sensitive information
HttpWatch has a free basic edition and a professional edition – pricing from $395.

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NS2HTML is a tool created to convert the config file extracted from Netscreen devices into friendly HTML rulebases. It is a free tool developed from the need of gathering data from policies used at ancient firewalls under administration. It is developed under GPL license. It’s totally free, under the license terms.

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AutoScan-Network is a network discovering and managing application. No configuration is required to scan your network. The main goal is to print the list of connected equipments in your network. It’s a free software and can be installed on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris and Maemo 4.

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Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. It started as Ethereal but was later re-branded as Wireshark due to trademark issues.

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Sandcat is a feature-rich and advanced web application security scanner. It’s a windows based application which helps to scan emerging Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, traditional Web technologies, and Web programming languages such as PHP. Sandcat’s fast engine interacts with a truly unique, up-to-date and extremely extensive database of checks and uses sophisticated techniques such as the newly introduced filter evasion and false positive reduction to give you stunning results. Sandcat has a free and pro versions.

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