Lynis - Security Tool for Audit and Hardening Linux / Unix Systems

Lynis is a security tool that can remind system administrators what should they do to secure and harden their systems

System administrator must have known about the importance of security. Maintaining servers are not just make the server is up and running but it should be secure too.

Security is not coming by default. We need to tune-up the systems to fit our needs. Since security has a wide coverage, sometimes its easy for us to miss something.

Because of that, there is a security tool that can remind system administrators what should they do to secure and harden their systems.

What is Lynis

Lynis is a security tool for audit and hardening Linux / Unix systems. This tool scan our systems, do some tests and gather information about it. At the end, Lynis will provide us a report with suggestions and security related warning to increase the security of the system. The tests are technical by nature, so Lynis intended for system administrators, auditor or security professional.

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