Fellow monks:

Recently, this node got considered, on the pretext of being a cracking tool. (Which it may well be, although there are better portscanners out there.) I voted to keep it around, because tools like this aren't necessarily evil; white-hat crackers (samurai, tiger teams, whatever you want to call them) can use them for penetration testing, and cautious sysadmins can use them for automated network security audits.

This got me thinking: what modules do you use to keep your site secure? Most of the Security section on CPAN is crypto related, which is nice if you're a cryppie, but not so nice if you just want to keep track of the number of portscans you've had this week. Clearly, we'll have to go elsewhere to find more practical security tools.

What modules do you throw together to keep the black hats away?

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In reply to How do *you* secure your network with Perl? by FoxtrotUniform

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