Vulnerability scanning is one of the foundations of standard enterprise security. An enterprise with a good security posture will have: a firewall, some type of asset-mapping, a vulnerability scanner and possibly even a security team that does some type of pentesting. Keep in mind that the list above is not exhaustive, but the rudimentary outline of an enterprise with a few good security measures in place.
Vulnerability scanners, in particular, are critical for ensuring that any threats that may have made it past the firewall are picked up before they can infect and destroy entire networks.
The enterprise/proprietary vulnerability scanner market is filled with competitors (such as QualysGuard or Nessus), and while some companies prefer running proprietary enterprise scanners, there are also many companies that prefer using collective intelligence and open source scanners.
One such product is OpenVAS (now renamed Greenbone Vulnerability Management or GVM). In this post we’ll refer to OpenVAS/GVM interchangeably, as the old name is still used to identify the software.
Who this course is for:
Security Analyst who want scan their complete Infrastructure including Network, database and Web Applications
Cybersecurity or Infosec engineers who want to learn Web Application Scanning in details with Nessus Scanner
