debian-cis VS Whonix

Compare debian-cis vs Whonix and see what are their differences.

debian-cis

PCI-DSS compliant Debian 10/11/12 hardening (by ovh)

Whonix

Whonix is an operating system focused on anonymity, privacy and security. It's based on the Tor anonymity network, Debian GNU/Linux and security by isolation. DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware with root privileges can find out the user's real IP. https://www.whonix.org (by Whonix)
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debian-cis Whonix
3 3
662 597
7.3% -
7.5 9.8
16 days ago about 2 years ago
Shell Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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debian-cis

Posts with mentions or reviews of debian-cis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.

Whonix

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing debian-cis and Whonix you can also consider the following projects:

ansible-collection-hardening - This Ansible collection provides battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, nginx, MySQL

HiddenVM - HiddenVM — Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace.

hardening - Hardening Ubuntu. Systemd edition.

ufw-docker - To fix the Docker and UFW security flaw without disabling iptables

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.

whoami-project - Whoami provides enhanced privacy, anonymity for Debian and Arch based linux distributions

How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server - An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.

openvpn-install - Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS or Arch Linux.

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

ansible-role-firewall - Ansible Role - iptables Firewall configuration.

bastion - 🔒Secure Bastion implemented as Docker Container running Alpine Linux with Google Authenticator & DUO MFA support

merOS-virt - Build and Interact with a Set of Virtual Machines