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Discussion of latest OpenVAS install & operation, ie. The Greenbone Community Edition version21.04(formerly OpenVAS) on Kali Linux 2021.3.

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

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 last quarter(4Q21):

• 175383 CVE profiles in scan engine,
• 79195 vulnerability tests available for the scan system to test the environment.

I will discuss the install process, and configuration. Show my laptop environment (not the prod standalone) but it works, I have used it to scan onsite.
The version that came out in late 2020 was considered “a forklift upgrade” changing the functionality of openVAS.

The Greenbone Scan Cluster performs scans for external targets (public IP addresses, e.g., WWW servers, e-mail servers, etc.) or internal targets via Virtual Private Network (VPN). After execution, the scan results are transferred back to the cloud and made available on the platform in the form of reports.

The name openVAS is being deprecated as it changes to the Greenbone name.

Kali Linux is a Linux distro that is customized to be most useful for cybersecurity work.

BIO:
Our speaker is Tony Zafiropoulos, CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor® of [Fixvirus.com](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://fixvirus.com/&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw3f2W3FbSP64YpK_pq1ETJK). He is a frequent & long-time contributor to SLUUG.

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