I was wondering if there’’s a GUI that sits on top of iptables to make creation of lengthy firewall policies a bit more straightforward and it turns out there most certainly is.  fwbuilder.org have written a magnificent multi-platform tool that presents a GUI to not only iptables, but PIX, FWSM, ipfilter & more.

You can download the installers for Windows, Mac & Linux as well as some extra modules here.

It really does work a charm.

I was looking for an app that would investigate an ESX host that wasn’t configured by me to see how much work would be needed to secure it.

I found Tripwire’s ConfigCheck java app an absolute cracker.