Best Free IT Security Software

Google Cloud Platform offers robust IT security tools to protect cloud workloads, including identity management, encryption, and threat detection. GCP’s multi-layered approach ensures that businesses can secure their infrastructure, data, and applications. With tools like Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Google Cloud Security Command Center, businesses can manage risks and compliance. New customers receive $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads, making it easier to evaluate the platform's IT security features at no upfront cost. GCP’s security tools include automated patch management, vulnerability scanning, and secure authentication, which help mitigate risks and reduce the threat surface. The platform is also designed to meet stringent compliance standards, ensuring that businesses can secure their cloud environments while adhering to industry regulations.

Axence nVision is a professional solution designed to manage IT infrastructure regardless of size. A feature-packed system, Axence nVision provides all the functions required for seamless and efficient IT infrastruction management. It offers a set of six modules, which includes Network Monitoring for full IT infrastructure monitoring, Inventory for fast hardware and software audit, Users activity monitoring, Helpdesk for providing interactive IT technical support, Dataguard for data leak protection and Smarttime for time management and employee activity measurement.

Artica project began in 2004 and stemmed from ideas about how to improve the Open Source security solutions available at the time, which were difficult and often expensive to implement and maintain. Artica provides a Powerful user-friendly Web interface and it’s designed to allow every IT administrator, with or without Linux knowledges, to install and maintain network service, like Proxy service, Reverse-Proxy service, DNS service, DNS Filter service, Firewall service, IDS service, SMTP service and more. Today, with around 110.000 servers installed worldwide, Artica solutions are used from small to large enterprises and in Public Government Services

Hybrid SIEM solution combining real-time (event) log monitoring with comprehensive system health & network monitoring provides users with a complete picture of their servers and endpoints. The included security event log normalization & correlation engine with descriptive email alerts provides additional context and presents cryptic Windows security events in easy to understand reports that offer insight beyond what is available from raw events. EventSentry's NetFlow component visualizes network traffic, can detect malicious activity and offers insight into bandwith usage. Keeping track of Active Directory changes is easy with EventSentry's ADMonitor component that records all changes to AD & Group Policy objects and provides a complete user inventory to help identify obsolete accounts. Various integrations & multi-tenancy available.

Fluxguard provides cloud-based website change monitoring. Locate errors, defacement, or other business-critical website changes, even on complex web apps or multi-page, multi-step sequences. Filter irrelevant changes. Create simple rules to alert business users and IT staff to web page changes that require investigation. Or delegate the analysis to one of our Solution Architects who will pre-screen results, optimize monitoring, and customize a change report. We utilize Natural Language Processing to simplify monitoring. This allows variation detection of a document’s extracted features, such as people, products, organizations, and so on. These insights can be leveraged to surface compelling dashboards and unique interrelationship analyses. Change summaries will be dispatched at once for staff remediation, analysis, or investigation. Receive detailed reports as soon as changes are detected.

SOC Prime operates the world’s largest and most advanced platform for collective cyber defense that cultivates collaboration from a global cybersecurity community and curates the most up-to-date Sigma rules compatible with over 28 SIEM, EDR, and XDR platforms. SOC Prime’s innovation, backed by the vendor-agnostic and zero-trust cybersecurity approach, and cutting-edge technology leveraging Sigma language and MITRE ATT&CK® as core pillars are recognized by the independent research companies, credited by the leading SIEM, XDR & MDR vendors, and trusted by 8,000+ organizations from 155 countries, including 42% of Fortune 100, 21% of Forbes Global 2000, 90+ public sector institutions, and 300+ MSSP and MDR providers. Driven by its advanced cybersecurity solutions, Threat Detection Marketplace, Uncoder AI, and Attack Detective, SOC Prime enables organizations to risk-optimize their cybersecurity posture while improving the ROI of their SOC investments.

Sophos UTM drives threat prevention to unmatched levels. The artificial intelligence built into Sophos Sandstorm is a deep learning neural network, an advanced form of machine learning, that detects both known and unknown malware without relying on signatures. Sophos UTM 9.4 is one of the first Sophos products to offer our advanced next-gen cloud sandboxing technology. Sandstorm provides a whole new level of ransomware and targeted attack protection, visibility, and analysis. It can quickly and accurately identify evasive threats before they enter your network. And, it’s tremendous value: it’s enterprise-grade protection without the enterprise-grade price-tag or complexity. Harden your web servers and Microsoft Enterprise Applications against hacking attempts while providing secure access to external users with reverse proxy authentication. Full SMTP and POP message protection from spam, phishing and data loss with our unique all-in-one protection.

Maintaining a strong security and compliance posture requires comprehensive visibility across your entire network. See how you can gain real-time visibility and control over your complex hybrid network infrastructure, policies and risk. Security Manager provides real-time visibility, control, and management for network security devices across hybrid cloud environments from a single pane of glass. Security Manager provides automated compliance assessment capabilities that help you validate configuration requirements and alert you when violations occur. Whether you need audit reports ready out-of-the-box or customizable reports tailored to your unique requirements, Security Manager reduces the time you spend configuring policies and gives you the confidence that you’re ready to meet your regulatory or internal compliance audit demands.