Open Source

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source

Seminar 09P - Implementing Kuali Identity Management at Your Institution

October 12, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Kuali Identity Management (KIM) is a module of the Kuali Rice framework that provides central identity and access management services. Implementing KIM is an essential part of any implementation of…

Using OSSEC Open-Source, Host-Based Intrusion Detection

April 13, 2010 | A session at the Security 2010

OSSEC is a free, open-source, cross-platform, host-based intrusion detection system. The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences has used OSSEC for several years. We utilize OSSEC to…

Linking Remote Sites with OpenVPN

April 14, 2010 | A session at the Security 2010

OpenVPN is a free, open-source, multiplatform VPN client and server system. This session will discuss deploying it on commodity hardware to enable secure connection of geographically distinct netwo…

Intrusion Detection: Getting to Know Bro

September 14, 2009

The open-source Bro network intrusion detection system provides a flexible framework for high-performance traffic inspection. Bro's extensive application-layer analysis provides deep insight i…

UTORvpn: Secure Remote Access for the Masses

November 4, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

The University of Toronto has developed and implemented a ubiquitous open-source VPN service based on SSL using OpenVPN. The service has over 3,500 active customers, with up to 50 simultaneous user…

Chaos to Clarity: Consolidate Your Security Information into a Knowledge Base

October 25, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

Maintaining spreadsheets on server configurations, firewalls, and personal identity data, each with redundant and inconsistent information, is outmoded in today's security climate. This presen…

Network Monitoring with Nagios

April 11, 2007 | A session at the Security 2007

Nagios is a freely available open source network and host monitoring tool. This presentation will discuss using Nagios in an academic environment to monitor servers, detect network problems, and al…

Force10 Networks - Is Open Source Key to High-Speed Security?

April 11, 2007 | A session at the Security 2007

As network speed has increased over the past three years, security has failed to keep pace. Traditional firewalls and intrusion protection systems can't handle proprietary rule sets or increas…

The Do-It-Yourself Anti-Spam Toolkit

October 11, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

At the University of California, Irvine, we have managed to reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial (or simply nasty) e-mail we receive to a mere trickle, using (almost) nothing but open-source…

The Botherd is Coming! How Education and Technology Can Stop the Stampede

April 11, 2006 | A session at the Security 2006

High-speed connections and lots of personal computers make campus networks target-rich environments for botnet recruitment. UAlbany has neither a campus firewall nor pre-connection policy enforceme…