New Added Utility : Lynis Unix Audit Tool v1.1.4

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In: Configurations checks , Local auditing , Lynis , Vulnerability Scanner

4 June 2008

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.

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

Supported operating systems

  • CentOS 5
  • Debian 4.0
  • Fedora Core 4 and higher
  • FreeBSD 6.2, 7.0
  • Mac OS X 10.4
  • OpenBSD 4.2, 4.3
  • OpenSolaris
  • OpenSuSE
  • Red Hat, RHEL 5.x
  • Slackware 12.1
  • Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, 8.04

Security-Database team has successfully test this software on MacOSX 10.5 (Leopard).

Post scriptum

Compliance Mandates

  • Vulnerability Scanner :

    PCI DSS 11.2, 6.6, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16CFR Part 314.4(c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5, SI-2, ISO 27001-27002 12.6, 15.2.2


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