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lynis - Security tool to audit systems running Linux, macOS, and Unix.

Website: https://cisofy.com/
License: GPL
Vendor: CISOfy
Description:
Lynis is an security auditing and hardening tool for UNIX derivatives like Linux, BSD
and Solaris. It performs an in-depth security scan on the system to detect software
and security issues. Besides information related to security, it will also scan for
general system information, installed packages, and possible
configuration issues.

This software is aimed at assisting with automated auditing, configuration management,
software patch management, penetration testing, vulnerability management, and malware
scanning of UNIX-based systems.

Lynis is released as a GPLv3 licensed project and free for everyone to use.
Commercial support and plugins are available via CISOfy.

See https://cisofy.com for a full description and documentation.
Distro notes:
This package is compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

How to Install

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install lynis

Packages

lynis-2.7.5-100.noarch [282 KiB] Changelog by Michael Boelen - 2.3.1-1 (2016-07-14):
- New release 2.3.1

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