Distributions

From ChekMate Security Group

• http://www.babytux.org/articles/howto/how2livecd.php - Example uses Mandrake but any distro should be possible.
• http://www.livedistro.org/search/node/gentoo LiveDistro's Gentoo Documentation
• ChekMate Live We are in the process of building a Knoppix Live CD Snort Sensor specific to our Snort deployment. Knowledge gained will be used for other Live CD deployments.
• CHAOS/openMosix Linux Cluster Distribution
• Building Your Own Live CD Create your own special-purpose live CD distribution with these little-known secrets of bootable CDs.
• 10 Best Security Live CD Distros (Pen-Test, Forensics & Recovery) Darknet.org summarizes ten different security based LiveCDs and rates them. A good article for figuring out which security LiveCD to add to your toolbox.
• BackTrack is the result of the merging of two Innovative Penetration Testing live Linux distributions - Whax and Auditor. Combining the best features from both distributions, and paying special attention to small details, this is probably the best version of either distributions to ever come out. Based on SLAX (Slackware), BackTrack provides user modularity. This means the distribution can be easily customised by the user to include personal scripts, additional tools, customised kernels, etc.
• VMWare FreeBSD Sguil image available from Taosecurity.blogspot.com
• The Auditor Security Collection is a Live-System based on KNOPPIX.
• Operator v3.3.20 (http://ussysadmin.com/operator/) contains an extensive set of Open Source network security tools for monitoring, discovering networks, computer forensic and data recovery tools on a Debian KNOPPIX CD.
• Anonym.OS LiveCD by kaos theory is an OpenBSD 3.8 Live CD with strong tools for anonymizing and encrypting connections. Standard network applications are provided and configured to take advantage of the tor onion routing network.
• Stillsecure, a sponsor of Bleeding Snort, has a preconfigured setup of the free version of Strata Guard available as a VMWare Player image.