Security scanning, testing, and remediation
By using Free Open Source Software (FOSS), your team can achieve many, if not all, aspects of your product’s lifecycle. Yes, I am definitely an open source advocate and have been since the late 1990s. There’s a good reason, especially in the Linux world. It’s the portability of skills.
Virtually all Linux distributions share about 90% of the same available commands and utilities. What they don’t share, that other 10%, is what makes those distributions unique, scalable, or more secure than the others. For discussion’s sake, I want to focus on that 90% – the common stuff.
When at a command prompt in Linux (regardless of distribution), there’s a baseline of commands we all come to know and rely upon. Granted there are variations out there, but the most common tools are what I am focusing on here.
The first command line tool I want to bring up is Nmap. Nmap has a GUI counterpart called...
