Working with Greenbone Vulnerability Manager
The Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner (OpenVAS) tool is a free vulnerability scanner that allows both ethical hackers and penetration testers to perform a vulnerability assessment on a network. OpenVAS can scan both authenticated and unauthenticated vulnerability assets within an organization.
When using an authenticated scan, the penetration tester provides valid login credentials to the vulnerability scanner, which allows it to authenticate to a system to provide a thorough scan for any misconfigurations on the target system’s settings. However, the unauthenticated scan is usually not as thorough since it looks for any security vulnerabilities on the surface of the target and provides a report.
Authenticated scans, by using valid login credentials, can perform checks against internal files, configurations, and more detailed system information, thereby identifying vulnerabilities that unauthenticated scans cannot...
