Lynis

Speaker: Michael Boelen

Abstract

Lynis is an open source security tool to audit Linux and Unix based systems. The main goal is system auditing and providing hardening guidance to users of the tool. The first version of the software was released in 2007 by its author Michael Boelen. It has seen a huge increase in usage during the years and is now part of most software repositories, including those available on Linux and the BSDs.

In 2013 Michael founded CISOfy to further professionalize the Lynis toolkit and make it more powerful, including for usage in big enterprises. The development cycle, documentation and features have been greatly extended since that time. In this talk Michael will share the history of the tool, how to use it in your environment and some upcoming features. If you are a system engineer, auditor or consultant and responsible for Unix based systems, you will benefit from the options Lynis has to offer.

Biography

Michael Boelen is founder of CISOfy, a company specializing in security solutions for Linux/Unix based environments. He worked in both technical and management roles at several multinationals. This gave him valuable insights in what companies need to be efficient and help the business with proper IT solutions. His passion for development started at the age of 10 and in 2003 he released his first open source project: Rootkit Hunter. Besides this popular tool, he developed Lynis in the years after and is now his favorite passion to work on.