SpyShelter Free: Behavioral Protection Without the Overhead What Is It? SpyShelter Free is a lightweight, rule-based security tool built to intercept suspicious activity before it escalates. Unlike traditional antivirus software that leans heavily on signature databases, SpyShelter focuses on behavior — watching how applications interact with the system in real time. It’s not a full endpoint protection suite, and it doesn’t try to be. But when layered with other tools, it quietly fills a gap: ca

Wazuh: When You Need a Real SIEM and Can’t Afford to Fake It What Is It? Wazuh is the kind of tool you end up with when off-the-shelf log collectors don’t cut it anymore. It’s open-source, aggressive on features, and brutally honest about what it does: host-based intrusion detection, file integrity, log analysis, vulnerability checks — all stitched together in one (very configurable) stack.

Originally forked from OSSEC, Wazuh grew into something much heavier, but smarter. You get full access to

GlassWire Free: Visual Firewall and Local Traffic Inspector for Windows What Is It? GlassWire Free isn’t a full-fledged security suite — and it doesn’t pretend to be. Instead, it fills a specific need: showing what’s happening on a Windows machine, in real time, with a clean interface that doesn’t bury the user in log files or low-level stats. It’s a visual front-end for Windows’ own firewall system, layered with traffic graphs, alerting, and historical views of application behavior.

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NetCrunch: Unified Monitoring Without the Stack Sprawl What Is It? NetCrunch is an all-in-one network and systems monitoring platform developed by AdRem Software. Unlike many open-source solutions that require assembling multiple components — exporters, databases, dashboards, alert engines — NetCrunch comes ready to go. One installer. One interface. And support for everything from SNMP-enabled switches to Windows services, syslogs, and even environmental sensors.

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