Server Security

Especially for Linux (Ubuntu)


 

Security Auditing and Monitoring


Lynis

  • Lynis is a verbose security auditing tool.

Installation

sudo apt-get install lynis

Use

sudo lynis -c -Q

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Tiger

  • Tiger is a verbose security auditing tool.

Installation

sudo apt-get install tiger

Use

sudo tiger
sudo less /var/log/tiger/security.report.*

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AppArmor

  • AppArmor is a tool to detect uncommon app profiles and configurations.

Installation

sudo apt-get install apparmor

Use

sudo apparmor_status

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LogWatch

  • LogWatch is a tool to monitor changes in and rotate system logs.

Installation

sudo apt-get install logwatch

Use

sudo logwatch | less

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