cset VS lynis

Compare cset vs lynis and see what are their differences.

cset

Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool (by cisagov)

lynis

Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional. (by CISOfy)
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cset lynis
4 72
1,317 12,507
3.6% 6.4%
9.9 7.8
5 days ago 19 days ago
TSQL Shell
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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cset

Posts with mentions or reviews of cset. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

lynis

Posts with mentions or reviews of lynis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cset and lynis you can also consider the following projects:

Scanners-Box - A powerful and open-source toolkit for hackers and security automation - 安全行业从业者自研开源扫描器合辑

Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

prowler - Prowler is an Open Source Security tool for AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes to do security assessments, audits, incident response, compliance, continuous monitoring, hardening and forensics readiness. Includes CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, GXP, Well-Architected Security, ENS and more

OSSEC - OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

vuls - Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices

PEASS-ng - PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)

prowler - Prowler is an Open Source security tool to perform AWS security best practices assessments, audits, incident response, continuous monitoring, hardening and forensics readiness. It contains more than 240 controls covering CIS, PCI-DSS, ISO27001, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, AWS FTR, ENS and custom security frameworks. [Moved to: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler]

cve-check-tool - Original Automated CVE Checking Tool

OSQuery - SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

debian-cis - PCI-DSS compliant Debian 10/11/12 hardening

pfSense - Main repository for pfSense

crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.