Scout2

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Tool and Usage

Project details

License
GPLv2
Programming language
Python
Latest release
3.2.1
Latest release date

Project health

60
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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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