Security Engineer

Security Audit in 10 Minutes — Your Agent Found 23 Vulnerabilities

10min audit vs $10K-50K annual assessmentDevOps & Cloud3 min read

Key Takeaway

The Security Audit skill performs comprehensive vulnerability scanning across your infrastructure — open ports, SSL configuration, dependency vulnerabilities, misconfigured permissions, exposed secrets, and outdated packages. Get a prioritized remediation plan instead of a 200-page report nobody reads.

The Problem

Security audits typically happen:

Never (most startups)
Once a year (compliance-driven companies)
After a breach (too late)

The cost of a proper security audit: $10,000-$50,000 from a consulting firm. The deliverable: a 200-page PDF that gets filed and forgotten. The follow-up: maybe 30% of findings get remediated.

Meanwhile, your servers have:

Open ports you forgot about
SSL certificates with weak cipher suites
npm packages with known CVEs
.env files committed to Git (three repos ago, still in history)
SSH with password auth enabled
Default credentials on admin panels
Docker containers running as root

The Solution

The Security Audit skill runs structured vulnerability assessments and produces actionable, prioritized remediation plans — not 200-page reports.

The Process

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You: Run a security audit on our production setup:
- 3 Ubuntu 22.04 servers (web, api, db)
- Node.js API + Next.js frontend
- PostgreSQL 16
- Redis
- All behind Cloudflare
- Git repos on GitLab

The agent produces a structured security assessment:

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## Security Audit Report — Production Environment

### CRITICAL (fix immediately) 🔴

1. SSH Password Authentication ENABLED (all 3 servers)
   Risk: Brute force attacks
   Fix: /etc/ssh/sshd_config → PasswordAuthentication no
   Command: sed -i 's/PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config && systemctl restart sshd

2. PostgreSQL listening on 0.0.0.0:5432
   Risk: Database accessible from internet
   Fix: postgresql.conf → listen_addresses = 'localhost,10.0.0.0/24'
   URGENT: This is actively exploitable

3. 7 npm packages with HIGH/CRITICAL CVEs
   Packages: lodash (prototype pollution), jsonwebtoken
   (signature bypass), express (ReDoS)
   Fix: npm audit fix --force (test in staging first)

### HIGH (fix this week) 🟠

4-8. [SSL cipher suite issues, missing security headers,
     Redis no auth, Docker root containers]

### MEDIUM (fix this sprint) 🟡

9-16. [Log rotation, backup encryption, rate limiting,
      CORS configuration, CSP headers]

### LOW (track and schedule) 🔵

17-23. [Minor version updates, informational findings]

### REMEDIATION PRIORITY

| # | Finding | Effort | Impact | Priority Score |
|---|---------|--------|--------|---------------|
| 2 | Postgres exposed | 5 min | Critical | 🔴 10/10 |
| 1 | SSH password auth | 5 min | Critical | 🔴 10/10 |
| 3 | npm CVEs | 30 min | High | 🟠 8/10 |
| 5 | Redis no auth | 10 min | High | 🟠 8/10 |
...

Total remediation time estimate: 4-6 hours

The Results

Metric	Annual Audit Firm	AI Security Audit
Frequency	Once/year	On-demand (anytime)
Cost	$10,000-50,000	~$0.20 per run
Deliverable	200-page PDF	Prioritized action list
Time to results	2-4 weeks	10 minutes
Remediation rate	~30%	Higher (actionable format)
Follow-up scans	Next year	Run again after fixes

Setup on MrChief

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skills:
  - security-audit
  - penetration-testing  # For deeper testing
  - healthcheck          # For ongoing hardening

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