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Introduction

As we continue to grow and progress we commonly get questions on how we do a certain thing or what technology we are using to process certain data sets. This page is to provide more of a laundry list with some explanation on what is in use. This is by no means a full conical list, nor could it be considered the best possible technology to use, but it is what we have grown into.

Analysis

Anti-Virus

It would be better to look over our AV pages here than to just try and list them.

Charting/Visualizations

  • Chart Director - the bulk of our charting is done with this tool using the Perl interfaces.
  • d3
  • Gheat - Worked well with smaller data sets but failed spectacularly when given millions of points to generate. Worked well for a few one-off maps and images but not really feasible for automated daily runs.
  • GraphViz
  • HighCharts
  • image::heatmap
  • ImageMagick

Communication

  • Jabber
  • Unreal IRC - As with most security geeks we prefer old school communication and find that IRC works really well no matter how often certain curmudgeons like to complain about its lack of standards.
  • WebEx - Mostly used for large group meetings, works pretty flawlessly.

Data Storage (Relational and Non-Relational)

E-Mail

Hardware

  • Areca - The current standard for RAID in Linux systems. The hardware is very solid and performs well.
  • Cisco
  • HP
  • Sun
  • SuperMicro

Honeyclients

  • Trigona
  • Privately developed system

Honeypots

IDS/IPS

Network Management

Operating Systems

Programming Languages

Sandboxing

Sinkholes

Ticket Tracking

  • Eventum
  • Privately developed system

Virtualization

Web

  • Apache - What other web server is there really that works so well for so many things?
  • Drupal - A great workhorse pig for limited use and sharing information.
  • MediaWiki
  • Pmwiki - Great for producing late 1990 web pages for the masses as you can tell from our current web site.