Security for OSX

The following document was found in the NSA site as an unclassified document. It serves as a good background to securing OSX an the various things to look out for.

Other interesting links includes

Interesting tools includes

  • weplab – cracking wep passwords
  • nmap – port scanning
  • tcpflow
  • MacStumber – scan wireless
  • EtherPeg – scan wireless for pictures
  • AirTraffic control – widget for wireless scanning
  • tcpdump – dump tcp traffic
  • john the ripper – password cracker
  • SNORT
  • HENWEN
  • Little snitch

The National Security Agency has good guidelines for Mac OSX. The security documents are available in PDF format on their OS Guides page for Mac OS X.

Condor Scheduler

This page contains outdated information. It continues to exist as a reference

Condor has check pointing ability but applications have to be recompiled in order to make use of the condor checkpoint libaries. Therefore, applications either need to be opensource or specifically written or re-written. It is more for high-throughput computing. No parallel job submission support