Ansible is a automation language that can describe an IT application infrastructure. https://www.ansible.com/

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. https://github.com/sstephenson/bats

Common Configuration Enumeration provides unique identifiers to security-related system configuration issues in order to improve workflow by facilitating fast and accurate correlation of configuration data across multiple information sources and tools. https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Security-Content-Automation-Protocol/Common-Configuration-Enumeration-(CCE)

The Center for Internet Security is a organization dedicated to enhancing the cybersecurity readiness and response among public and private sector entities. https://www.cisecurity.org/

The United States Defense Information Systems Agency provides, operates, and assures command and control and information-sharing capabilities and a globally accessible enterprise information infrastructure. http://www.disa.mil/

United States Department of Defense. https://www.defense.gov/

End User Device.

The Government Communications Headquarters is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. https://www.gchq.gov.uk/

Information assurance is the practice of assuring information and managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems and processes used for those purposes.

Sufficiently advanced technology, beyond the understanding of the observer producing a sense of wonder.

The National Cyber Security Centre is an organisation of the United Kingdom Government that provides advice and support for the public and private sector in how to avoid computer security threats. Based in London, it became operational in October 2016, and its parent organisation is GCHQ. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/

The National Security Agency is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. https://www.nsa.gov/

The Security Technical Implementation Guides are the configuration standards for DoD IA and IA-enabled devices/systems. https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution. https://www.redhat.com.

TAP, the Test Anything Protocol, is a simple text-based interface between testing modules in a test harness. http://testanything.org/

Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux distribution. https://www.ubuntu.com/