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ashish b.

Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/23/2020

"Open source VA Tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

Easy to update and use this tool for VA.

It's and open source tool but it works same as other paid tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

Sometimes it difficult to download report. If we start multiple number of scans on different target than it becomes not responding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dario O.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/18/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Excellent open source software for vulnerability management, a must-have for small and medium enterprises."

4.5/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

OpenVAS, also known as Greenbone Assistant or GVM, is a free and open-source web app for major Linux distributions that, leveraging the powerful OpenVAS scanning engine, allows you to obtain and test any hosts or any subnet of hosts against all vulnerabilities found and reported on CVE and other authoritative historical datasets containing such vulnerabilities. The GUI allows for the immediate creation or scheduling of manual, scheduled, or repeated tests through an event scheduler, and through the same GUI, it is possible to see the progress of the scan as well as any issues encountered and/or vulnerabilities found in real-time without waiting for the scan to finish. I consider OpenVAS the most authoritative tool for conducting non-destructive security audits on one's infrastructure, and the speed and simplicity with which it allows you to quickly achieve results of significant value for security and business make it the first tool to install and learn to use for any expert/operator in the Security field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

The default Redis configuration is not suitable for handling scans with large numbers of hosts and their open services. Therefore, it is necessary, although not officially documented, to perform a very complex tuning to avoid crashes and the unavailability of the VM where OpenVAS is installed, which would result in the loss of data and control over ongoing and past scans. Furthermore, the log export option does not allow filtering what to include in the PDF report and what not (e.g., false positives or already resolved issues). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenVAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

With OpenVAS installed and running, I can keep track of individual vulnerabilities and their resolution status and severity, as well as plan continuous, automated, and in-depth scans on my LAN and corporate public IPs at times that do not impact work activities, with corresponding alerting to the designated figures (Security operators) in case of new serious vulnerabilities emerging. The time I save through the automation of scans and the creation of PDF reports is immeasurable; OpenVAS is a godsend and allows me to dedicate the time usually spent performing individual scans at various levels of depth to activities of greater interest or training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Adel T.

Security Specialist IoT

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/31/2020

"Free and cover most of the important feature of nessus"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

White-box scanning is pretty efficient. I found a lot of security issues in servers with that feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

A lot of pen tester relay on high flags to consider or not the security issues when the information section is the most important one to look first. the software should be that visible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dimitris T.

ICT Support Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/22/2020

"Simple and effective"

5/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

The friendly gui and the vulnerability scans that are very accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

I don't feel that there i s anything bad on this project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenVAS:

I woul recommend to take advantage of the hole functionality of OpenVas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenVAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

The goal was to scan network and web vulnerabilities on specific servers in the Harokopeio university facilities in Greece.This test was the practical section study for my thesis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Civil Engineering

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/28/2020

"Good value considering is an Open Source tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

Great results in relatively short time, very intuitive and easy to use even for someone who doesn't have much experience and it's free! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

It needs some maintanace in order to keep it working. It stopped working after not using it for a while and we had to re-install it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenVAS:

Keep it mind you would need someone administrating the tool in order to keep it working for a long period of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenVAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

You get your vulnerability management address with a Open Source tool which is pretty reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jose Moises A.

Network Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/30/2020

"One of the best security tool I've seen in my 11 years of IT experience"

5/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

It is a powerfull and it is open source (Free).

Very easy to use, create reports, new scans etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

This app is kind of slow compared with another application like nessus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/29/2020

"Best automated scanner out there"

5/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

Fast and relaible automated scanner. Liked that OpenVas scans for default passwords and try to brute-force the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

Really ? nothing. the scanner is fast ... the GUI is pretty handy and you can spot immediately the vulns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Md Aamir K.

Cloud Bigdata Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/8/2020

"I am using this tool in many project, and i have recommend it to many company and there are using 2."

5/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

Its very deep scanner tools with very good GUI interface and easy to install and used, we can download reports in many format, we can schedule jobs and get report automatically. and its agent less as swell Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

Nothing for now everything seems gd no cause Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Automotive

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/29/2020

"Simply I loved it"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

I love the crawler, and the way they shows the results it help me a lot and also help me to manage things is proper manner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

It have lots of false positive, please insure it give the proper issue validation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenVAS:

It is ease to use and give some fantastic results too, but like every software need some update, it's too, they need to work on there false positive results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenVAS solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's fronted is better, also the crawler they give best overview, also it make proper report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Charis S.

Penetration Tester

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/21/2020

"An effective vuln assessment framework"

4/5

What do you like best about OpenVAS?

User-friendly GUI, easy to handle and establish security tests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVAS?

A little burdensome configuration procedure is needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.