Friday Freebie

Happy Friday!Today's almost-freebie combines security and FTP servers. It's only free for 30 days, but the company suggests that the initial license should give you ample time to analyze network traffic and determine how secure (or insecure) your FTP servers might be.And today's real freebie is MonoStack from BitRock. Tumbleweed has announced the availability of its FTP Analyzer Tool, a diagnostic tool to help organizations identify unsecured or rogue FTP traffic in their IT environments. You can view a short demo of the product here.

The Tumbleweed FTP Analyzer is a Java-based network sniffer application that allows organizations to capture and analyze secure vs. unsecure file transfers and sessions taking place within an organization. The new free tool helps organizations find the FTP servers that pose a security risk to the organization, generating a two-page executive-level report as well as a detailed log. The executive report identifies:

?? Overall volume of secure and unsecure file transfer traffic?? Secure and unsecure file transfer traffic over time?? Top 10 largest unsecured files transferred?? Top 10 busiest FTP servers

The new FTP Analyzer delivers features including: ?? Monitoring of Port 21 FTP traffic to analyze the flow of secure and unsecure FTP traffic?? Scheduling functionality allows users to create a ???set and forget it??? schedule of monitoring?? Reporting and analysis provide users with easy-to-read, non-technical executive level reports

Happy sniffing!BitRock MonoStack includes Apache, mod_mono and XSP and plugs in to existing Mono installations to allow users to quickly deploy ASP.NET on Linux. ???MonoStack serves as a complement to the existing Mono installer, by providing the additional software necessary to run ASP.NET on Linux. By downloading and installing the Mono Runtime from the Mono project website and MonoStack from BitRock, users can have a complete Mono development environment in minutes,??? said Erica Brescia, VP of Business Development for BitRock.

BitRocks' MonoStack is freely available for download and use under the terms of the Apache License 2.0 from www.bitrock.com. It can be used by both commercial and open source projects for rapid, consistent deployments in both development and production environments.

Happy deployments!