Practical Linux Security Cookbook

Using Lynis

Monitoring log files on Linux manually is a very tedious task. To make it easy, we can use auditing tools on our Linux system, which will be able to automatically scan the whole system for any kind of security issues.

Lynis is easy to use and we can get a security report in a faster duration of time. This is helpful when scanning Linux systems for vulnerabilities and malwares.

Getting ready

To use Lynis, it's not necessary to install it. If you are using an Ubuntu system, you can use apt-get to install the Lynis package:

apt-get install lynis

When the preceding command is run, we get the following output:

For other Linux distributions, simply ...