Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is an open source vulnerability assessment scanner and also a vulnerability management tool that's often utilized by attackers to scan a wide range of networks. It includes around 47,000 vulnerabilities in its database; however, this is considered a slow network vulnerability scanner compared to other commercial tools, such as Nessus, nexpose, and Qualys.
If OpenVAS is already not installed, make sure your Kali is up to date and install the latest OpenVAS by running the apt-get install Openvas command. Once that's done, run the openvas-setup command to set up OpenVAS. To make sure the installation is okay, the penetration testers can run the openvas-check-setup command and it will list down the top 10 items that are required to run OpenVAS effectively. Upon successful installation...
