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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wow! That is a very intriguing question, and one that I have never considered before. Just spitballing here but you could possibly use trad apps like Lynis, Greenbone, Nikto, etc. These apps often produce rather verbose and sometimes cryptic output, i know Lynis sure does. So, you could use a prompt like:

'You are a security analyst. Review the following Nmap scan results. Identify services running outdated or potentially vulnerable versions, suggest likely CVEs, and prioritize findings by risk.'

Then use something like llama3.1:70b, mistral-nemo or deepseek-coder-v2, and pipe your security scans into your local AI. You could feed it your NGINX, docker configs, pFsense firewall rules in and ask the model to audit them.

IDK, that's a very good question I think. It'll be interesting to see what others have to comment.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've done this (asked a frontier model red team my server), and it just gave me false alarms that I went investigating and weren't really issues (would've been an issue if I had a very specific configuration, but not generally). They produce a lot of noise, so you still have to somewhat understand what you're looking at/for. It didn't find any legitimate issues, which is good I guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    They produce a lot of noise, so you still have to somewhat understand what you’re looking at/for.

    I'd buy that. I mean, Lynis produces volumes of info, not all are really related to your server.

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