Force users to login to NTOP

If you spin up NTOP out of the box on a Debian or Ubuntu server anyone that connects to the site can view the data.  You can easily protect this data by forcing users to authenticate when they access the site by using the following simple instructions.

Go to Admin > Protect URLs
Select Add URL
Do no add anything to the URL, select the Authorized Users, and select Add URL


You should now be prompted to login whenever you access your NTOP server.

Free security scan tool for Windows

Don't let a lack of budget stop you from running security scans against your Windows computers.  Microsoft provides a free tool called the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), that does a pretty good job.

It checks for missing patches, account issues, and configuration issues with Microsoft apps such as IIS and SQL.  It then provides you with some remediation steps for the potential problems it finds.

You can download the MBSA here.