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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.

Security and identityFor IT and opsSelf-hostable
View on GitHubVisit cisofy.com

Ship status

Slowed

Last push 31–120 days ago. Quiet, not gone.

Last push
16 Sep 2026
56 days ago
Ship score
38/100
How it is calculated →
Stars, last 7 weeks
Stars, weekly: 16,398 → 16,663 (29 Sep – 10 Nov 2026)
+201 stars in the 28 days to 10 Nov 2026

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
16.7K
Forks
1.6K
Open issues
251
Watchers
341
Primary language
Shell
License
GNU General Public License v3.0
Created
10 Dec 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. 6 startups in the directory ship primarily in Shell.

Topics

#auditing#compliance#devops#devops-tools#gdpr#hardening#hipaa#linux#pci-dss#security-audit#security-hardening#security-scanner#security-tools#security-vulnerability#shell#system-hardening#unix#vulnerability-assessment#vulnerability-detection#vulnerability-scanners

How it got here

What the classifier decided, and when.

Read by Jev, TypeSafe’s classifier, on 22 Sep 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 Sep 2025 crawl. Answered by jev-1.13.0. How the classification works →

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