OpenVAS Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• What should I be doing as the sole sysadmin for a company to keep up with security?

  Personally, I was lucky enough to get a license to Nessus for my own scanning, however you can use OpenVAS for some free to scan. Scanners aren't 100% correct no matter where you go but it'll give you some things to look at. OpenVAS. - Source: Reddit / 11 months ago

• Wanting to protect my own homelab

  Https://openvas.org/ OpenVAS is free and fairly capable. It might struggle cpu on a pi... Might need quite a bit of ram, but I'm hoping you've got some beefier kit in your stack. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Free nessus equivalent?

  Maybe OpenVAS would fill the bill. It’s been on my list of things to check out. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Internal Vulnerability Scanning

  OpenVAS - https://openvas.org Try it first, its free, just download a prebuilt VM and you're off and running. I found it valuable for my clients. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Unable to finish my eng degree and trying to get into cyber security full time.. Is it doable?

  Look into setting up some vulnerability scanning tools in your home network like https://openvas.org/ or https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/nessus-essentials. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago