cyber-security-engineer

What This Skill Does

The Cyber Security Engineer skill provides a robust framework for privilege governance and system hardening within OpenClaw environments. It is designed to enforce the principle of least privilege, ensuring that agents operate with the minimum level of access required to complete their assigned tasks. By leveraging internal policy files and automated auditing scripts, this skill prevents unauthorized elevation, restricts network exposure, and ensures compliance with ISO 27001 and NIST frameworks. It mandates explicit user approval for elevated actions, implements 30-minute idle session timeouts, and continuously monitors for unauthorized port binding or egress traffic that deviates from predefined security baselines.

Installation

To integrate this security suite into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/fletcherfrimpong/cyber-security-engineer

Ensure that your environment satisfies the requirements for Python 3 and at least one of the following network utilities: lsof, ss, or netstat. Post-installation, you should review the template files located in the references/ directory to customize your command-policy.json, egress_allowlist.json, and approved_ports.json to match your specific infrastructure needs.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for security-conscious DevOps workflows and enterprise-grade agent deployment. It is particularly effective for:

1. Hardening production servers where automated agent activity must be strictly audited.
2. Implementing compliance-first development environments that require regular reporting against NIST standards.
3. Managing privileged tasks such as system updates or configuration changes that require a secondary human verification step before execution.
4. Detecting compromised agents by monitoring for unexpected outbound network connections or non-standard listening ports.

Example Prompts

1. "Perform a security audit of my current session and check if any ports are open that are not in the approved_ports.json file."
2. "I need to update the system packages; please initiate the apt-get update process using the guarded_privileged_exec script to ensure the elevation is scoped."
3. "Generate a compliance report based on the current system state, comparing our active configurations against the NIST baseline and providing mitigations for any violations."

Tips & Limitations

Always ensure that your policy files are reviewed by human administrators before enforcement. Because this skill disables web browsing to prevent exfiltration, all assessments are conducted against local state. For new environments, run python3 scripts/generate_approved_ports.py to establish your initial security posture baseline. Regularly check the audit_logger.py logs to stay informed on system changes.