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Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus
From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:03:29 -0500
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Jan-Oliver Wagner <> wrote:
What we, the OpenVAS team, also do is to further develop a powerful framwork around the actual scan engine. We call this "Vulnerability Management" as a level beyond "Vulnerability Scanning". All the best Jan -- Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | ++49-541-335084-0 | http://www.greenbone.net/ Greenbone Networks GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
I think that sums it up best. Nessus and OpenVAS are designed to be Vulnerability Management systems while Nmap is designed to be a Vulnerability Scanner which can provide data to a Vulnerability Management system. -Jason _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jacky Jack (Jul 29)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Ron (Aug 02)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Patrick Donnelly (Aug 02)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Dražen Popović (Aug 03)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Djalal Harouni (Aug 03)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jacky Jack (Aug 04)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jan-Oliver Wagner (Aug 05)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus DePriest, Jason R. (Aug 05)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jan-Oliver Wagner (Aug 05)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jacky Jack (Aug 07)