OpenVAS Reviews & Product Details

OpenVAS is a great free software for vulnerability scans, offering good performance compared to other free tools. Easy to deploy and well configurable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI of OpenVAS can be confusing for new users. The options are hidden and not very intuitive. The lack of a more well-developed and organized inventory can also be a point of improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Automation of openvas is really best, It just take the IP and start the scanning.

Alien vault taking this product as in built in its features.

On the other hand multiple operating systems are supported by openvas. It is opensource based and free of cost as usual and use full to small business coverage.

It has been built to be an all-in-one scanner which is being updated or recurring basis, you can either select it manual or take a scheduled job on automatic basis. Overall this is really a good product and support many scanning engine in a single pane of glass. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its Input method is quit annoying for beginner users, secondly it could deep inspection as manually a person could do. on the web scanning some times it leave very basic vulnerabilities due to automation. and one thing I would like to add more about its scanning result its covering the less vulnerabilities as compare to other products.

false positive also been observed in openvas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenVAS is helpful in providing a vulnerability scanning application that can be paired with a GUI for allowing IT security groups to deliver effective reporting in providing technological risks. I like the plug in using greenbone security assistant to enhance OpenVas with a graphical tool to make easy of use even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Open source nature can make it difficult to run when dependencies break as a result of Linux distros updating or upgrading. The pdf report generation is commonly what breaks most often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is an excellent suite of tools created to be able to follow, Keeping a state of full visibility of vulnerable hosts within your network allows individual systems engineers to deploy effective measures to prevent intrusions aimed at exploiting those vulnerabilities. It automates our manual task of scanning and searching vulnerabilities within our network and gives detail analysis and reports based on severity pointers which helps us to take appropriate action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no negative because it is open sources project and the result is getting far better then any other sources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to plan tasks on a daily, monthly or yearly basis allows you to devote your time to different objectives and leave OpenVAS to do the "dirty work" and generate valid and descriptive reports of the problem or vulnerabilities found. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it is a bit difficult to configure in the initial part regarding the number of Redis processes (used to store the logs), an incorrect configuration will in fact make the VM / server resources jump to the maximum and will not allow you to end the scan and the reporting process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the fact that there is a quick deployment option using a virtualized image, it is also generally good for Free to implement small-scale projects, it provides substantial feedback and yet not exaggerated by the results without a shadow of a spectrum causing forced hacker entry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about this tool is the large, free, and developed community. It quickly finds common vulnerabilities and provides a correct report. Good for small businesses. It comes bundled with Debian, deft Linux, and backtrack, and gives fast results. Easy to use, user-friendly GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenVAS has a good amount of feature for vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management. when using it for my projects, comparing OpenVAS with other tools like it, OpenVAS was able to find more vulnerabilities, showing how accurate OpenVAS is. Another benefit to OpenVAS it is a free tool, allowing to have access to everything the tool has to offer, unlike other tools where only part of the tool is free. with the open souce nature of OpenVAS this give the user option to create their own plugins to use with OpenVAS, this makes OpenVAS very felixable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

there are only few thing i dislike about OpenVAS , compared to other tools the UI of OpenVAS looks bit outdated. another point to make on the UI is insted of seeing total threats, it would be better to see what threats are connected to which device on the dashbord insted of having to navgate around the UI to find it. As when using other tools the treat information for each device is shown stright away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful thing about OpenVAS is the fact that it can accomplish everything that non free vulnerability Scanners can accomplish and yet free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downside of OpenVas is the fact that sometime, you may get some false positives. But i think this is absolutely fine because almost all vulnerability scanner does the same. Hence the tool just need to be continually improved to get better and better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As Openvas is open-source tool and also comes packed with Kali Linux.

It helps me to perform vulnerability scanning, which allows me to work on particular vulnerabilities.

Best part of Openvas is it supports vulnerability scanning for both host and network and generate a report contanting all vulnerability or threats with their risk matrix such as high,medium and low in understandable format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plugins are not updated frequently as other vulnerability scanner and little bit slower than other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenVAS is not a SIEM but allows, just like the more expensive software in the sector, in a completely free manner and without additional costs or limitations, to add the inventory of your hosts and devices and to plan in total simplicity and interactively through a GUI the various scans to be executed in search of software, server, and service vulnerabilities and their code, also allowing you to choose and fully manage the depth level of the scans themselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The recommended installation method on GitHub on the OpenVAS - Greenbone page, the only method that allows you to automatically receive scan engine updates, does not work due to a bug in the recommended Redis configuration. To fix it, I had to search on unofficial forums, which is not pleasant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.