OpenVAS Insights

What is OpenVAS?

OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment System) is a framework of several services and tools offering comprehensive and free vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management. It is commonly used by security professionals to identify security weaknesses in systems and networks.

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What other technologies are related to OpenVAS?

OpenVAS Competitor Technologies

Tenable Nessus

Nessus is a widely used vulnerability scanner that competes directly with OpenVAS in the vulnerability assessment market.

mentioned alongside OpenVAS in 3% (1.2k) of relevant job posts

Qualys

Qualys offers a cloud-based vulnerability management platform that competes with OpenVAS by providing vulnerability scanning and assessment capabilities.

mentioned alongside OpenVAS in 4% (629) of relevant job posts

Nexpose

Nexpose, now InsightVM, is a vulnerability scanner offered by Rapid7, competing directly with OpenVAS in the vulnerability management space.

mentioned alongside OpenVAS in 5% (101) of relevant job posts

Acunetix

Acunetix is a web vulnerability scanner that directly competes with OpenVAS in identifying vulnerabilities in web applications.

mentioned alongside OpenVAS in 4% (76) of relevant job posts

OpenVAS Complementary Technologies

Metasploit

Metasploit is a penetration testing framework that can be used with the results from OpenVAS scans to exploit identified vulnerabilities.

mentioned alongside OpenVAS in 4% (475) of relevant job posts

Burp Suite

Burp Suite is a web application security testing tool which identifies vulnerabilities that can complement the work OpenVAS does.

mentioned alongside OpenVAS in 3% (599) of relevant job posts

Nmap

Nmap is a network scanning tool that can be used to discover hosts and services, providing information that can be used by OpenVAS for vulnerability scanning.

mentioned alongside OpenVAS in 3% (430) of relevant job posts