This page contains a number of tools I use on a regular basis and links I’ve saved on the bookmarks bar; some tools i.e. Broadband availability checkers are specific to the UK only. ## Antivirus 1. [Antivirus Scanning Exclusions – Prevent Poor Performance – Enterprise](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822158/en-us "Antivirus Exclusions - enterprise") 2. [Antivirus Scanning Exclusions – All MS products](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.microsoft-anti-virus-exclusion-list.aspx "Antivirus Exclusions -All MS products") 3. [Cloud Malware analysis (Virus Total)](https://www.virustotal.com/) 4. [ANY.RUN - Interactive Online Malware Sandbox](https://any.run/) ## Apple Mac 1. [Fixing your Mac](https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3622 "Apple Mac Troubleshooting") ## Best Practices 1. [Group Policy](http://www.grouppolicy.biz/best-practices/ "Group Policy Best Practices") ## Blue team 1. [PingCastle](https://www.pingcastle.com/) 2. [Active Directory Security Assessment | Purple Knight (semperis.com)](https://www.semperis.com/purple-knight/) 3. [Early Warning - MyNCSC](https://my.ncsc.gov.uk/) 4. [nthashes.com | Free Active Directory Password Auditing](https://nthashes.com/) 5. [GitHub - BloodHoundAD/BloodHound: Six Degrees of Domain Admin](https://github.com/BloodHoundAD/BloodHound) ## Broadband Checkers/Testing 1. [BT Broadband Availability Checker](https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL "BT Availability Checker") ## Comparison Tools 1. [Versus – compare specifications of items](http://versus.com/en "Compare specifications of items") ## Diagramming 1. [Visio Stencils](http://www.visiocafe.com/) ## DNS/Email Testing/Blacklists 1. [MXToolbox](http://mxtoolbox.com/ "MXToolbox") 2. [DNS Health Checker](http://www.intodns.com/ "DNS Health Checker") 3. [Various DNS tools](http://viewdns.info/) 4. [DMARC Policy Validator - ORF (vamsoft.com)](https://vamsoft.com/support/tools/dmarc-policy-validator) ## File Manipulation 1. [CloudConvert](https://cloudconvert.org/ "Cloud Convert") 2. [Small PDF – File type conversion/optimisation](http://smallpdf.com/ "Small PDF - File type conversion/optimisation") ## GDPR 1. [The GDPR Checklist - Your GDPR compliance checklist](https://gdprchecklist.io/) ## Information Security 1. [Top 35 Mitigations against Cyber Intrusion](https://acsc.gov.au/infosec/mitigationstrategies.htm "Top 35 Mitigations") 2. [Password Pusher](https://pwpush.com/) 3. [NCSC Early Warning](https://www.earlywarning.service.ncsc.gov.uk/) ## Mobile Platforms 1. [Android Virtual machines](http://www.genymotion.com/features/ "Android VMs") ## Microsoft/Office 365 1. [Roadmap](http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office-365-roadmap-FX104343353.aspx "Office 365 Roadmap") ## Pentesting 1. [Intro to SQL injection](http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/07/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-sql.html "Intro to SQL Injection") ## Powershell 1. [Powershell to EXE](http://ps2exe.azurewebsites.net/ "Powershell to EXE") ## Phishing 1. [The tools your team need to combat brand impersonation - phish.report](https://phish.report/) 2. [dnstwist | phishing domain scanner](https://dnstwist.it/) ## RAID 1. [RAID Failures/Estimates (0/5/10/50/60)](http://www.raid-failure.com/ "RAID Failure estimation") 2. [Synology RAID space calculator/Unit Estimator](http://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator "Synology RAID space calculator/Unit suggestor") ## Screenshot Walkthrough’s 1. [Network overload](http://www.networkoverload.com/) ## SQL 1. [SQL Dumper](http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqldumper/?source=dlp "SQL Dumper tool") ## Technical Blogs/Forums 1. [MSP](http://www.reddit.com/r/msp "Reddit MSP") 2. [Luke's Scripts – MSPP – Luke Whitelock's scripts and useful things for MSPs](https://mspp.io/) 3. [Gavsto.com – Everything NinjaOne, MSP and Reporting – NinjaOne, Reports, and MSP Resources](https://www.gavsto.com/) 4. [Sysadmin](http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin "Reddit Sysadmin") 5. [MPECS Inc.](http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/ "MPECS Inc.") 6. [NetSec](http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec "Reddit Netsec") 7. [Girlgerms](https://girl-germs.com/) 8. [Daniel Miessler](https://danielmiessler.com/) ## Training 1. [CCNA](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmdYg02XJt6QRQfYjyQcMPfS3mrSnFbRC "CCNA Youtube Videos") ## Wireless 1. [WiFi scanning/Signal Strength/Mapping](http://www.ekahau.com/wifidesign/ekahau-heatmapper "wifi scanning/signal strength/mapping tool") ## WSUS 1. [Memory Usage High – WSUS](http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2011/07/sbs-2011-wsus-sql-memory-usage-is-very.html "High WSUS Memory Usage") --- [[Epistemic status|Colophon: Brewing]]