How to Perform a Free Ubuntu Vulnerability Scan with OpenSCAP and Canonical’s Official OVAL Content. Hello everyone! Five years ago I wrote a blogpost about OpenSCAP. But it was only about the SCAP Workbench GUI application and how to use it to detect security misconfigurations.
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This time, I will install the OpenSCAP command line tool on Ubuntu and use it to check for vulnerabilities on my local host.
Assessing Linux Security Configurations with SCAP Workbench. Recently I had a chance to work with OpenSCAP. It’s a set of free and open-source tools for Linux Configuration Assessment and a collection security content in SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) format.
In this post I will write about SCAP Workbench. It is a GUI application that can check the configuration of your local Linux host (or the remote host via ssh; note that agent installation is required), and show the settings that are not comply with some security standard, for example PCI DSS or DISA STIG.
Moreover, you can generate the script for automated remediation. You can also create your own scan profiles based on existing SCAP content.
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