auditing

I like lightweight audit scripts that reveal obvious host hygiene problems quickly: world-writable files, suspicious SUID bits, and weak key permissions. These scripts are not a substitute for configuration management, but they help surface drift befo

Privilege escalation detection is rarely one command. I look for unexpected SUID binaries, writable service units, dangerous sudo rules, and kernel or package drift. These checks are not glamorous, but they catch a lot of real misconfigurations that a

Auditing isn’t just “save everything”. Capture who did it, what changed, and why. Rails gives you dirty tracking; store diffs in a JSON column. Keep it minimal to avoid ballooning storage.