OpenVAS

The Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is the most widespread Open Source solution for vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management. It is used and improved world wide by people ranging from security experts to private users.

Community Site: www.openvas.org Started: 2005 Current version: 5 Size: 7 modules, about 200,000 lines of code Programming language: C, one module in C++ License: GNU GPLv2 Greenbone's contribution: over 70%

OpenVAS is the scan engine used and supported as part of the Greenbone Security Solutions. The Greenbone development team has contributed significantly to the advancement of OpenVAS, since 2005. The international OpenVAS developer conference was held in Osnabrück in 2007, 2009 and 2011.

In technical terms, the basis of OpenVAS is a service-oriented client-server architecture: The OpenVAS framework consists of various modules, each with a clearly defined task. These communicate via well established protocols. The communication is consistently SSL-secured.

OpenVAS is compatible with the Greenbone Security Feed. For full scale use with our Feed, various optional functions of OpenVAS need to be enabled (for example WMI).

Further details are available under Tool Architecture.