OpenSCAP
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Year of inception
- License
- LGPLv2.1
- Programming language
- C
- Latest release
- 1.4.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Introduction
The OpenSCAP project provides a wide variety of hardening guides, configuration baselines, and tools to test for vulnerabilities and configuration issues. It uses SCAP as the protocol to store the underlying data.
Usage and audience
OpenSCAP is commonly used for security assessment or vulnerability scanning. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.
Features
- Command line interface
- Uses CWE name convention
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 25 contributors
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Supported by a large company
Installation
Supported operating systems
OpenSCAP is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Linux hardening tool, Linux security audit tool, compliance testing tool, and configuration audit tool.