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Security auditing tool for systems running Linux, macOS, BSD, and other UNIX-based systems. subtitle

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Lynis

Ossec Trivy Wazuh Suricata osquery SonarQube Snyk Mozilla Observatory Sysdig ClamAV

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Lynis are Ossec, Trivy, and Wazuh. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. 1
    OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Cyber Security #Monitoring Tools 1 social mentions

  2. 2
    A Simple and Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner for Containers and other Artifacts, Suitable for CI
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Monitoring Tools #Cyber Security

  3. 3
    Open Source Host and Endpoint Security
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Security Information And Event Management (SIEM) #Cyber Security 49 social mentions

  4. Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Cyber Security #Tool 12 social mentions

  5. Utilities, Application Utilities, and Desktop Querying Tools
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Monitoring Tools #Cyber Security 18 social mentions

  6. SonarQube, a core component of the Sonar solution, is an open source, self-managed tool that systematically helps developers and organizations deliver Clean Code.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $150.0 / Annually

    #Code Analysis #Code Review #Code Coverage 1 social mentions

  7. 7
    Snyk helps you use open source and stay secure. Continuously find and fix vulnerabilities for npm, Maven, NuGet, RubyGems, PyPI and much more.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security #Security Monitoring #Security CI 85 social mentions

  8. The Mozilla Observatory is a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Application Security #Security #Web And Mobile Application Security 32 social mentions

  9. 9
    Sysdig is an open source, system-level exploration that capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security #Monitoring Tools #Developer Tools 2 social mentions

  10. 10
    Application and Data, Application Utilities, and Security
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cyber Security #Security & Privacy #Antivirus 5 social mentions

  11. 11
    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions

  12. The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Application Security #Security #Security & Privacy

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