Entries by Greenbone AG

Greenbone Expands Detection Coverage for Huawei Linux Distributions

We’re thrilled to announce significant enhancements to the Notus Scanner in both our Greenbone Enterprise and Community Edition vulnerability scanners. As a core component of the OpenVAS scanner, Notus Scanner is Greenbone’s module for performing Local Security Checks (LSC) and supports our industry leading detection capabilities by detecting vulnerable software packages and libraries directly on […]

Greenbone Audits CIS Google Chrome Benchmarks

Web browsers are a primary gateway to business and consequently they are also a primary gateway for cyber attacks. Malware targeting browsers could gain direct unauthorized access to a target’s network and data or social engineer victims into providing sensitive information that gives the attacker unauthorized access, such as account credentials. In 2024, major browsers […]

Greenbone 2024 Review: A Very Good Year with Growth Everywhere

Also in its 16th year, the Osnabrück-based expert and market leader in Open Source Vulnerability Management has kept growing, both in employees, customers, partners and last not least on this blog. After doubling our workforce over the last two years, we at Greenbone are looking proudly at 143 employees, most of them work remotely. This […]

Major Release: Greenbone Enterprise Appliance 24.10 with Hot New Features

We’re excited to announce the coming release of Greenbone Enterprise Appliance (GEA) version 24.10, with new front-end features to enhance your vulnerability management activities, and performance enhancing back-end features. Our GEA product line includes a wide range of enterprise vulnerability management solutions including dedicated hardware appliances and virtual machine (VM) configurations suitable for enterprises of […]

Stop the Standstill: how Greenbone Helps Protect Against DoS Attacks

A DoS attack (Denial of Service) can mean a complete standstill: an important service fails, an application no longer responds or access to one’s own system is blocked. DoS attacks have a clear, destructive goal: to paralyze digital resources, preventing access to the legitimate users. The consequences of a DoS attack can be drastic: from […]

Understanding Mass Exploitation Attacks

If an organization has high value, you can bet that bad actors are contemplating how to exploit its IT weaknesses for financial gain. Ransomware attacks are the apex threat in this regard, rendering a victim’s data unusable, extorting them for a decryption key. Highly targeted organizations need to understand exactly where their risk lies and […]

Greenbone Enterprise Products Lead all Network Vulnerability Scanners

OpenVAS began in 2005 when Nessus transitioned from open source to a proprietary license. Two companies, Intevation and DN Systems adopted the existing project and began evolving and maintaining it under a GPL v2.0 license. Since then, OpenVAS has evolved into Greenbone, the most widely-used and applauded open-source vulnerability scanner and vulnerability management solution in […]

Save the date: it-sa 2024

On October 22, the “it-sa Expo&Congress” will open its doors again in Nuremberg. The trade fair is now one of the largest platforms for IT security solutions worldwide. Last year, it set new records with 19,449 trade visitors from 55 countries and 795 exhibitors from 30 countries. This year, Greenbone will be at the ADN […]

NIS2: What you need to know

NIS2 Umsetzung gezielt auf den Weg bringen! The deadline for the implementation of NIS2 is approaching – by October 17, 2024, stricter cybersecurity measures are to be transposed into law in Germany via the NIS2 Implementation Act. Other member states will develop their own legislature based on EU Directive 2022/2555. We have taken a close […]

Vulnerability management in 12 minutes

Why is Greenbone not a security provider like any other? How did Greenbone come about and what impact does Greenbone’s long history have on the quality of its vulnerability scanners and the security of its customers? The new video “Demystify Greenbone” provides answers to these questions in an twelve-minute overview. It shows why experts need […]