Snort VS lynis

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Snort

Snort++ (by snort3)
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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)
Security Shell Linux pci-dss Compliance security-audit security-hardening security-scanner security-vulnerability Hipaa Unix vulnerability-detection vulnerability-scanners vulnerability-assessment DevOps DevOps Tools system-hardening Hardening Auditing Gdpr security-tools
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Snort lynis
2 72
2,261 12,493
3.5% 6.3%
9.4 8.1
9 days ago 10 days ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Snort

Posts with mentions or reviews of Snort. 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 Snort and lynis you can also consider the following projects:

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

Fail2Ban - Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

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.

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

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

cve-check-tool - Original Automated CVE Checking Tool

Suricata - Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.

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

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

Snort vs Wazuh lynis vs Wazuh Snort vs Fail2Ban lynis vs OSSEC Snort vs crowdsec lynis vs PEASS-ng Snort vs OSSEC lynis vs cve-check-tool Snort vs Suricata lynis vs OSQuery Snort vs OSQuery lynis vs debian-cis