Security audits are like hobbies. You always hear good things from people about them, 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,