(Sorry for the short notice in this ANNOUNCE-list_
StL Linux Users Group ~openVAS security tool UPGRADE v11
TONITE!!! Thursday, January 21
https://stllug.sluug.org/ will have the Zoom link for the remote mtng.
OpenVAS is a GUI (and command line) scan vulnerability system .
Tony gave a talk about openVAS a few years ago when we were meeting at UMSL's
incubator. Now, he wants to tell us how its latest release is a "fork-lift
upgrsde" which has some major changes. that you need to prepare for.
OpenVAS dates back to 2009 and the project is maintained by a commercial/open-source
company. With its focus on the enterprise market and its long history, any risks of
enterprises adopting a technology that might become abandoned are greatly reduced.
Can perform various types of authenticated/unauthenticated tests
Supports a variety of high- and low-level Internet and industrial protocols
Has an internal programming language that can be used for implementing custom
vulnerability tests
In the last quarter:
149253 CVE profiles in scan engine,
63580 vulnerability tests available for the scan system to test the environment.
I will discuss the install process, and configuration. I'll show my test
environment.
Discussion of latest release OpenVAS install and operation, here are some details:
The Greenbone Community Edition version11(formerly OpenVAS) on Kali Linux 2020.2.
production
The Greenbone Community Edition version11(formerly OpenVAS) on Kali Linux 2020.3. test
BIO:
Tony Zafiropoulos, CISA is a Certified Information Systems Auditor® and a frequent &
long-time contributor to SLUUG. When not speaking to us, he runs the consulting company
FixVirus.
Fixvirus.com
<https://www.google.com/url?q=http://fixvirus.com/&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw3f2W3FbSP64YpK_pq1ETJK>
His most recent talk to our group was on the Kali Linux distro which is customized for
security investigation.
Monthly on the third Thursday
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