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OpenVAS - Open Vulnerability Assessment System
2008-08-19 11:56:20 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 

As you all probably known since version 3 Nessus turned to a proprietary model and started charging for the latest plugins locking most of us out. Now we finally have a new, properly organised forked development with the name of OpenVAS - at last a decent and free Vulnerability Scanner!

OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment System and is a network security scanner with associated tools like a graphical user front-end. The core component is a server with a set of network vulnerability tests (NVTs) to detect security problems in remote systems and applications.

OpenVAS products are Free Software under GNU GPL and a fork of Nessus.

Source:
http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/08/openvas-open-vulnerability-assessment-system-nessus-is-back/

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Tags: openvas, vulnerability assessment system, openvas products, openvas stands, network vulnerability tests, graphical user front-end, free vulnerability scanner, network security scanner, core component
 
 
 
 
 


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