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8 Best Free and Open Source Incident Response Tools - LinuxLinks
Computer monitoring systems are used to gather data for the purpose of real-time incident notification, performance analysis, and system health verification. Without such a tool, a system administrator would have to login to each machine to collect information on a regular basis. This kind of repetitive task can be automated using a system monitoring tool.
Interacting closely with monitoring systems are incident response tools. An incident is an event that could lead to loss of, or disruption to, an organization’s operations, services or functions.
A good incident response tool integrates with many different IT Service Management tools. It helps organisations respond to critical issues before they impact the business.
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hours - no-frills time tracking - LinuxLinks
hours is a no-frills time tracking toolkit for the command line.
It’s designed for users who want basic time tracking for their tasks/projects right in the terminal.
With a simple and minimalistic UI, almost everything in hours can be achieved with one or two key presses. It can also generate plaintext reports, summary statistics, and logs based on time tracked.
This is free and open source software.
Top 9 Programming Tools for Kids - LinuxLinks
Fortunately, there are a growing range of software, often open source, that helps students learn how to code. Stripping away the complexity, the programming languages and associated tools featured in this article aim to create new ways of helping students create projects that appeal to younger minds.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 9 high quality programming tools that provide an ideal introduction to programming. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for teachers and students alike.
FIR - cybersecurity incident management platform - LinuxLinks
FIR (Fast Incident Response) is an cybersecurity incident management platform designed with agility and speed in mind. It allows for easy creation, tracking, and reporting of cybersecurity incidents.
FIR is for anyone needing to track cybersecurity incidents (CSIRTs, CERTs, SOCs, etc.). It was tailored to suit our needs and our team’s habits, but we put a great deal of effort into making it as generic as possible before releasing it so that other teams around the world may also use it and customize it as they see fit.
This is free and open source software.
TurboWarp - Scratch mod - LinuxLinks
TurboWarp is a mod of Scratch with a compiler to run projects faster, dark mode for your eyes, a bunch of addons to improve the editor, and more.
It compiles projects to JavaScript to make them run much faster.
TurboWarp is not affiliated with Scratch, the Scratch Team, or the Scratch Foundation.
This is free and open source software.