lynis
CISOfy/lynis
Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.
Ship status
SlowedLast push 31–120 days ago. Quiet, not gone.
- Last push
- Sep 16, 2026
- 36 days ago
- Stars, last 7 weeks
- +151 stars in the 28 days to 2026-10-20
Shipping: pushed in the last 30 days · slowed: quiet for 31–120 days · silent: no push in over 120 days.
Repo facts
What GitHub reports.
- Stars
- 16.5K
- Forks
- 1.6K
- Open issues
- 226
- Watchers
- 346
- Primary language
- Shell
- Created
- Dec 10, 2013
- Owner
- CISOfy · Organization
Open issues are the issues and pull requests GitHub reports as open; watchers are the accounts subscribed to the repository. OSI-approved license — GitHub’s own license field, not legal advice. 5 startups in the directory ship primarily in Shell.
Topics
How it got here
What the classifier decided, and when.
Read by Jev, TypeSafe’s classifier, on Sep 22, 2026, which did not call this an open-source startup — it chose a package or library instead, and put os_startup at 48% (self-hostable 91%, hosted offering 48%). The classifier reads only the repository’s name, description and homepage; it can be wrong, and a probability under 0.5 puts a listing in the review queue rather than out of the directory. This one is in that queue, waiting for a person — removing a listing is a pull request a human opens.
Listed since the 2025-09 crawl. Answered by jev-1.13.0. How the classification works →
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