Scout2
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2
- Programming language
- Python
- Latest release
- 3.2.1
- Latest release date
Project health
How it works
Scout2 gathers configuration data via the AWS API. It marks the item which needs to be inspected manually. High-risk areas are highlighted automatically, so they can be analyzed and solved.
Usage and audience
Scout2 is commonly used for IT audit, security assessment, self-assessment, or system hardening. Target users for this tool are security professionals and system administrators.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 10 contributors
- + More than 500 GitHub stars
Installation
Supported operating systems
Scout2 is known to work on Linux.
Dependencies
Several dependencies are required to use Scout2.
- boto3
- netaddr
- opinel
- python-dateutil
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