prowler VS lynis

Compare prowler vs lynis and see what are their differences.

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 (by prowler-cloud)

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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prowler lynis
24 72
9,547 12,507
3.0% 6.4%
9.8 7.8
about 13 hours ago 16 days ago
Python Shell
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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prowler

Posts with mentions or reviews of prowler. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.

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 prowler and lynis you can also consider the following projects:

ScoutSuite - Multi-Cloud Security Auditing Tool

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

cloudmapper - CloudMapper helps you analyze your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.

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.

steampipe-mod-aws-compliance - Run individual controls or full compliance benchmarks for CIS, PCI, NIST, HIPAA and more across all of your AWS accounts using Powerpipe and Steampipe.

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

terraform-aws-secure-baseline - Terraform module to set up your AWS account with the secure baseline configuration based on CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations and AWS Foundational Security Best Practices.

cve-check-tool - Original Automated CVE Checking Tool

opencspm - Open Cloud Security Posture Management Engine

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

CIS-Ubuntu-20.04-Ansible - Ansible Role to Automate CIS v1.1.0 Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS Remediation

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