Is Lynis (audit tool) worth using in 2025? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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The tool Lynis is an auditing tool used to audit Unix systems. Is it still relevant? Worth using?

It used to be fairly widely used years ago. Is it still worth its salt or are there other better options? Do you guys think it's needed at all with common sense now days.

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[-] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 0 points 10 months ago

We use both lynis and wazuh, wazuh is getting replaced with logpoint and Aws inspector.

I now need to check we pickup the lynis log

this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025

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