Author: Ed Itor

Balagetech has a scintillating article on monitoring traffic with OpenWRT.
The article lays out the process to configure ulog and syslog-ng.
The logs can be sent to an ELK stack for visualization.
balagetech.com/monitor-network-traffic-openwrt-syslog-ng/

Here is a site with a facility to check indicators of compromise (IOC).
‘ This free version allows 25 queries per day.’
www.threatstop.com/check-ioc

need to run it on client side and server side
github.com/samyk/pwnat

Crowdsec is a crowd source intrusion prevention system (IPS). Interesting idea, time will tell if it works. They have a Windows agent and a WordPress plugin.
Get more information: crowdstrike.net

These are some useful commands to see how the config is manifested.
Post the runtime configuration:
ip a; ip r; ip ru; iptables-save

use paramiko to ssh with python
www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-execute-shell-commands-in-a-remote-machine-using-python-paramiko/

SSLLABS will test your SSL and give you a comprehensive report and a grade www.ssllabs.com

This URL will run several tests and give the site a grade: www.ssllabs.com/ssltest

fullhunt scans the internet and you can search the data. free api available
fullhunt.io/