checkip VS trivy

I used checkip to find information about the IP address behind the URL:

You can use checkip to find out who is interacting with your system.

Checkip is a CLI tool and library that provides generic and security information about an IP address in a quick way.

OK :-)

I wanted to add it to checkip but I can't call it from command line:

Do you have an IP address, like from logs, that you have no idea what is it? You might find checkip helpful. It is a CLI tool and library that checks an IP address using various public services.

checkip is a CLI tool and library that checks an IP address using various public services.

You need to install it (basically just download the binary) and then to run it like checkip . Please see the project's documentation for more.

Trivy Owner/Maintainer: Aqua Security Age: First released on GitHub on May 7th, 2019 License: Apache License 2.0 backward-compatible with tfsec

Trivy. A Simple and Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner for Containers.

Using Trivy:

Trivy is a mature and comprehensive open source tool from Aqua Security that supports scanning multiple sources, from file systems to containers and VMs. Trivy also looks beyond vulnerabilities, to scan licenses, secrets, infrastructure as code misconfiguration, and more.

I would suggest to think about the thread model that you are facing so you can have a better mental model of the weak points of your environment. The very very big majority of these attacks will be automated probing for publicly known vulnerabilities or default credentials. That means the maintainers of the software you are running and the channels on which their updates are shipped to you and deployed are very important factors. For software that is not installed from a trusted and well maintained source (e.g. Ubuntus main repository), you want to make extra sure that vulnerabilities are updated. E.g. your deployed docker containers might contain security issues, you can run checks on these with tools like trivy. The same is also true for appliances, in case your router or firewall contains a software vulnerability, how will you be notified and how will the required updates be deployed?