Greenbone Basic: Small Businesses Can Now Easily Protect Themselves from Vulnerabilities

Cyber attacks have become the greatest threat to modern businesses of all sizes. An abundant amount of attacks have caused a stir, cost billions, and resulted in production downtime and significant damage all over the world. Not a lot has changed in 2024, and the threat situation is the same for small and large companies: Studies show that nine out of ten businesses are aware of the danger and intend to invest in protection against attackers, malware, and ransomware.
Only modern vulnerability management, as provided by us can offer professional protection. For many years, the products of our company have proven their reliability and quality under highest demands, every single day, in critical infrastructures, government agencies, corporations, and organisations. Now, we are launching a tailor-made solution for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The Full Power of Greenbone’s Vulnerability Management for SMEs

What large organizations have been deploying for a long time, is now also available for smaller companies: We are launching a new version of our proven Greenbone Vulnerability Management: Greenbone Basic is perfect for small and medium-sized businesses, is more affordable than the competition, is based on our tried and tested Greenbone Enterprise Products, and offers the well-known, strong protection for everyone.

At a entry level price, Greenbone Basic delivers many of the features of the larger product, while remaining significantly more affordable than comparable competitor offerings. Like the Greenbone Enterprise Products, Greenbone Basic also comes with the best detection rate for vulnerabilities, the fastest zero-day protection, and ease of use.

Greenbone Basic excels with fast deployment, ease of use and efficient operation – qualities that professional vulnerability management demands in today’s infrastructures.

“We tailored Greenbone Basic specifically to the needs of SMEs because we were increasingly approached by representatives of smaller and medium-sized companies. SMEs have very specific requirements but today face the same challenges as large enterprises.”

Hannes Nordlohne, Business Development Manager

Greenbone Basic scans up to 200 IP addresses within 24 hours and comes with Greenbone’s proven and continuously updated CVE tests for predictive scanning. Administrators can quickly and easily deploy the software, which is prepared for various platforms. Basic supports common server virtualization such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V, VMware, or Oracle Virtualbox, with integration also covering functions like mandatory regular backups.

Features and Functionality

For many years, we have been market leader in open-source vulnerability management. This extensive experience and knowledge now is utilized in Greenbone Basic, delivering features indispensable in small and medium-sized environments – such as the intuitive and clear browser-based user interface.

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The graphical web interface not only provides a constantly updated overview of the system’s status and performance, but it also allows for the comfortable management and initiation of scans, and integrates reporting plugins with filters, sorting, notes, and risk assessment. A dedicated module handles certificate management, scans can be automated via schedules, and after completion, Greenbone Basic automatically provides administrators with all relevant information. These reports are available in PDF, HTML, text, and XML formats.

Modern vulnerability management aims to identify, assess, prioritize, and remediate security gaps (vulnerabilities) in IT systems, networks, applications, and devices. This process is crucial to ensure the security of a company’s or organizations IT infrastructure and to minimize risks from cyber attacks or data loss.

Greenbone identifies vulnerabilities using customized tests and proprietary scanners, as well as proven open-source software, to classify threats and suggest solutions, patches, configuration changes, workarounds, or updates to the administrator.

“Greenbone has one of the largest databases and the best algorithms for vulnerability detection. Greenbone Basic customers benefit from the fastest zero-day protection on the market – we respond faster than other providers, and our system almost always detects new vulnerabilities on the first day. Greenbone Basic brings all these advantages to small businesses as well.”

Benjamin Höner, Chief Product Officer, Greenbone

High Performance at entry level price: Greenbone Basic

For just €2,450 per year, small and medium-sized businesses can now afford the same protection that large companies use to safeguard their infrastructure. Especially in comparison to the free version “Greenbone Free“, Greenbone Basic offers significantly more security and numerous extra features: In addition to the many scans and tests required by enterprise customers (for Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, Palo Alto, Trend Micro, Fortinet, Juniper, and many more), there are also automatic scans and the essential integration into enterprise directories like LDAP and RADIUS.

Feature comparison (Greenbone Free, Greenbone Basic, Greenbone Enterprise)

However, for those who need sensors, API access, remediation tickets, and other enterprise features, and who also want to purchase support from Greenbone, the classic Greenbone Enterprise, is the right choice, suitable for businesses of all sizes. You can request the Greenbone Basic entry-level product here and test it free of charge for seven days.