syft VS lynis

Compare syft vs lynis and see what are their differences.

syft

CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems (by anchore)

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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syft lynis
32 72
5,417 12,493
3.3% 6.3%
9.8 8.1
3 days ago 9 days ago
Go Shell
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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syft

Posts with mentions or reviews of syft. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-22.

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 syft 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.

grype - A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

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.

cdxgen - Creates CycloneDX Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for your projects from source and container images. Supports many languages and package managers. Integrate in your CI/CD pipeline with automatic submission to Dependency Track server. Slack: https://cyclonedx.slack.com/archives/C04NFFE1962

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

clair - Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers

cve-check-tool - Original Automated CVE Checking Tool

falco - Cloud Native Runtime Security

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

checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

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