Security Automation with Ansible 2

Continuous security scans and reports for OpenSCAP using Ansible Tower

OpenSCAP is a set of security tools, policies, and standards to perform security compliance checks against the systems by following SCAP. SCAP is the U.S. standard maintained by NIST.

The SCAP scanner application reads a SCAP security policy and checks whether the system is compliant with it. It goes through all of the rules defined in the policy one by one and reports whether each rule is fulfilled. If all checks pass, the system is compliant with the security policy.

OpenSCAP follows these steps to perform scanning on your system:

• Install SCAP Workbench or OpenSCAP Base (for more information, visit https://www.open-scap.org)
• Choose a policy
• Adjust your settings
• Evaluate ...