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Friday, September 28, 2012

Lynis - Security and system auditing tool

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.

This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems. It can be run without prior installation, so inclusion on read only storage is no problem (USB stick, cd/dvd).

Lynis assists auditors in performing Basel II, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS and SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance audits.

Intended audience:
Security specialists, penetration testers, system auditors, system/network managers.

Examples of audit tests:
- Available authentication methods
- Expired SSL certificates
- Outdated software
- User accounts without password
- Incorrect file permissions
- Firewall auditing


System requirements:

- Compatible operating system (see 'Supported operating systems')
- Default shell
Supported operating systems
Tested on:
- Arch Linux
- CentOS
- Debian
- Fedora Core 4 and higher
- FreeBSD
- Gentoo
- Knoppix
- Mac OS X
- Mandriva 2007
- OpenBSD 4.x
- OpenSolaris
- OpenSuSE
- PcBSD
- PCLinuxOS
- Red Hat, RHEL 5.x
- Slackware 12.1
- Solaris 10
- Ubuntu
Downloads

1.3.0 - Latest release
1.2.9 - Previous release

Packages

Lynis RPM (spec)
Non-official RPM's (by Peter Linnell) 
Debian package
Lynis Demo


Documentation


Source -

http://www.rootkit.nl/projects/lynis.html

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