kube-bench
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark (by aquasecurity)
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)
| kube-bench | lynis | |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 72 | |
| 6,659 | 12,533 | |
| 1.1% | 1.2% | |
| 8.4 | 7.8 | |
| 6 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Go | Shell | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kube-bench
Posts with mentions or reviews of kube-bench.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-01.
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Cloud Security and Resilience: DevSecOps Tools and Practices
2. Kubebench: https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench Kubebench is an open-source tool that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
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Evaluating and securing your Kubernetes infrastructure with kube-bench
However, no matter how well our applications are secured, the security of our entire IT environment ultimately depends on the security of our infrastructure. Therefore, in the lab to follow, we will shift our focus away from Kubernetes workloads and instead explore how we can evaluate and improve upon the security of our Kubernetes clusters with kube-bench, the industry-leading Kubernetes benchmarking solution developed by Aqua.
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Kube-bench and Popeye: A Power Duo for AKS Security Compliance
The official repository can be found here with detailed installation instructions.
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Quickstart - Aqua Security Kube-Bench
curl -L [https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases/download/v0.6.10/kube-bench_0.6.10_linux_amd64.deb](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases/download/v0.6.2/kube-bench_0.6.2_linux_amd64.deb) -o kube-bench_0.6.10_linux_amd64.deb
- Looking for Tips on Open Sourcing a kubernetes security tool
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Kubernetes Security: 10 Best Practices from the Industry and Community
I haven't used Kubernetes for a while, but shouldn't kube-bench (1) be enough? Do you have to check anything manually?
(1) https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
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Implement DevSecOps to Secure your CI/CD pipeline
kube-bench checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark. We can deploy kube-bench as a Job that runs daily and consume its report in CI/CD to pass or fail the pipeline based on the level of severity.
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Securing Kubernetes Cluster using Kubescape and kube-bench
kube-bench can be executed as a simple command on the host, as a container on the host using Docker command, or as a job inside Kubernetes Cluster. In case it is run inside a container/pod, it will need access to the PID namespace of the host system. The methods to run kube-bench in AKS, EKS, GKE, On-prem cluster, Openshift and ACK (Alibaba Cloud Container Service For Kubernetes) are different but well documented.
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What are some fundamental security practices for the self hosted k8s cluster?
Check this out: kube-bench - CIS Benchmark
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Top 6 Kubernetes Security Tools
Kube-bench, written as a Go application, is deployable as a container. Ready-made job.yaml files make it easy to run Kube-bench inside a Kubernetes cluster or on a managed Kubernetes service, such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or OpenShift. Here's a link to Kube-Bench on Github
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.
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Who does check linux distros of malware - open source
Linux has (free) tools to improve security and detect/remove malware: Lynis,Chkrootkit,Rkhunter,ClamAV,Vuls,LMD,radare2,Yara,ntopng,maltrail,Snort,Suricata...
- Learn security best practices
- How do i find and remove the compilers installed in fedora?
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Fight against scans, bots and script-kiddies
What I would do in your place is run this https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis and follow some of the instructions.
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What are your favorite sites that are privacy related that you bookmarked?
https://github.com/CISOfy/Lynis (Linux hardening)
- Server security/hardening baselines for Linux Template
- Ultimate privacy when setting up Fedora?
- Linux security tests?
- Vulnerability scanning tools for homelab?
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Cyber Security for developers: what and where to learn?
Linux security audit scanner
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kube-bench and lynis you can also consider the following projects:
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
kubesec - Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources
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.
kubeaudit - kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
PEASS-ng - PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)
kube-hunter - Hunt for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters
cve-check-tool - Original Automated CVE Checking Tool
falco - Cloud Native Runtime Security
OSQuery - SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
docker-bench-security - The Docker Bench for Security is a script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production.
debian-cis - PCI-DSS compliant Debian 10/11/12 hardening