Ubuntu Security Guide

This repository contains the Ubuntu Security Guide (usg) tool for Ubuntu Focal and later LTS releases.

Ubuntu Security Guide is a tool that makes hardening and auditing with compliance profiles easy on Ubuntu systems. USG uses OpenSCAP as a backend.

Reporting issues

Any issues found on usg should be reported on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/usg

Please don't forget to add some information such as:

1. usg version
2. Ubuntu version
3. Run the failling command with --debug and upload the logs.
4. Any other relevant information

How to Build

No SCAP content is provided in this repository, but scripts are available in the tools/ directory that assists with copying the SCAP content into place. This SCAP content should be previously downloaded or generated using a tool, such as the ComplianceAsCode/content tool. Please review the instructions in README.build for information on how to use these scripts to prepare Ubuntu Security Guide.

Previous Contributors

Prior to open sourcing these scripts on GitHub, these additional authors provided contributions:

• Alexander Scheel
• Richard Maciel Costa
• Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos