OpenVAS Security and Vulnerability Scanner on RHEL/CentOS 6.5
We have chosen OpenVAS(Open Vulnerability Assessment System), originally a german open source product, to scan our network environment consists of thousands of servers, both VM and physical running Linux and Windows. OpenVAS is backed by German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and DFN-CERT (German Research Network) contributes their advisories to the OpenVAS Security Feed. OpenVAS originally was a fork of Nessus and now an efficient alternate to Tenable proprietary Nessus with a free of charge daily updated feed of Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs). Components Openvas vulnerability scanner suit consist of 3 major components: openvasmd : OpenVAS Manager running on port 9390 openvassd : OpenVAS Scanner running on port 9391 gsad : Greenbone Security Assistant acting as Web UI running on port 9392 How to Install I've installed the OpenVAS version 7 on top of RHEL 6.5. Following explains how I did it: 1. Add the Atomicorp Repos