live cd for security & rescue

speirs · 05-17-2006, 03:34 AM

im not really familiar with live cd.

im looking for 2 live cds, dedicated for security and rescue respectively.

or is there a live cd that is great enough to do both job?

thanks.
later.

pljvaldez · 05-17-2006, 11:30 AM

Knoppix is the biggest general distribution. I also use System Rescue CD and the Ultimate Boot CD from time to time.

After a quick google, here's an article with four big ones on security auditing. They may be general enough to most rescue ops also...

chrisg631 · 05-17-2006, 11:39 AM

For system resuce:
http://www.sysresccd.org
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

For security testing:
Whoppix and Auditor merged and came out with a nice live cd
http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Main_Page