LYNIS
Audit your system for vulnerabilities
Invulnerable Shashank Sharma has the perfect tool to keep systems safe.
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OUR EXPERT
Shashank Sharma is trial lawyer in New Delhi, India. He’s been writing about open source software for 20 years and lawyering for 10.
In addition to providing tips for general system hardening, Lynis also informs you of vulnerable software packages and possible configuration issues.
Security audits are like hobbies. You always hear good things from people about them, S and your life is vastly improved if you put one to good use. But if you’re anything like us, you’ve convinced yourself that performing a security audit on your system is a time-consuming exercise, and one that only seasoned veterans can carry out. Thankfully, with the right tool at your disposal, you can test your system for vulnerabilities in almost no time at all.
Released under the GPLv3 licence, Lynis is a security audit tool designed to test your system across a vast array of categories, such as Boot and Services, Kernel, Memory and Processes, Shells, Fileystems, USB Devices, Storage, NFS, Printers and Spools, Networking, SSH Support, Databases, Users, Groups and Authentication, and more. While there are various tools that can be deployed to test the vulnerabilities of any one of these categories, Lynis stands out because of its ability to test your system across so many areas.