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7.10. Additional Resources
For more information about various security compliance fields of interest, see the resources below.
Installed Documentation
- oscap(8) — The manual page for the oscap command-line utility provides a complete list of available options and their usage explanation.
- scap-workbench(8) — The manual page for the
SCAP Workbenchapplication provides a basic information about the application as well as some links to potential sources of SCAP content. - scap-security-guide(8) — The manual page for scap-security-guide provides further documentation about the various available SCAP security profiles. Examples how to utilize the provided benchmarks using the OpenSCAP utility are provided as well.
Online Documentation
- The OpenSCAP project page — The home page to the OpenSCAP project provides detailed information about the oscap utility and other components and projects related to SCAP.
- The SCAP Workbench project page — The home page to the SCAP Workbench project provides detailed information about the scap-workbench application.
- The SCAP Security Guide (SSG) project page — The home page to the SSG project that provides the latest security content for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SCAP page — This page represents a vast collection of SCAP related materials, including SCAP publications, specifications, and the SCAP Validation Program.
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD) — This page represents the largest repository of SCAP content and other SCAP standards based vulnerability management data.
- Red Hat OVAL content repository — This is a repository containing OVAL definitions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
- MITRE CVE — This is a database of publicly known security vulnerabilities provided by the MITRE corporation.
- MITRE OVAL — This page represents an OVAL related project provided by the MITRE corporation. Among other OVAL related information, these pages contain the latest version of the OVAL language and a repository of OVAL content with thousands of OVAL definitions.
- Red Hat Satellite documentation — This set of guides describes, among other topics, how to maintain system security on multiple systems by using OpenSCAP.

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