Post #4229839
2026-07-23 00:20 UTC
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 Identify services running outdated or potentially vulnerable versions, suggest likely CVEs, and prioritize findings by risk.’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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@sobchak@programming.dev 2026-07-23 03:25
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.