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Thurs 21 Jan '21

OpenVAS is a GUI (and command line) scan vulnerability system .

Tony gave a talk about openVAS a few years ago when we were meeting at UMSL's incubator. Now, he wants to tell us how its latest release is a "fork-lift upgrsde" which has some major changes. that you need to prepare for.

OpenVAS dates back to 2009 and the project is maintained by a commercial/open-source company. With its focus on the enterprise market and its long history, any risks of enterprises adopting a technology that might become abandoned are greatly reduced.

-Can perform various types of authenticated/unauthenticated tests
-Supports a variety of high- and low-level Internet and industrial protocols.
-Has an internal programming language that can be used for implementing custom vulnerability tests.

In the last quarter:

149253 CVE profiles in scan engine,
63580 vulnerability tests available for the scan system to test the environment.

I will discuss the install process, and configuration. I'll show my test environment.

Discussion of latest release OpenVAS install and operation, here are some details:

The Greenbone Community Edition version11 (formerly OpenVAS) on Kali Linux 2020.2. production

The Greenbone Community Edition version11 (formerly OpenVAS) on Kali Linux 2020.3. test

BIO:

Tony Zafiropoulos, CISA is a Certified Information Systems Auditor® and a frequent & long-time contributor to SLUUG. When not speaking to us, he runs the consulting company FixVirus. Fixvirus.com His most recent talk to our group was on the Kali Linux distro which is customized for security investigation.

The Saint Louis MO, STL Linux Users Group (STLLUG) meets monthly to talk about Linux. This GNU/Linux Users Group usually holds its meetings on the third Thursday of every month. Meetings are free and open to everyone.

We start gathering around 6:30 PM. At 6:45 PM we start with introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP segment. Then we will go into the presentation of our main topic, sometime around or after 7:00 PM.