Scanning with Openvas : Openvas Walkthrough

Title : Openvas walkthrough

Author : Farzeen ashhar

Due date : 10th Jan 2023

Publish Date :10th Jan 2023

Introduction

Name : Farzeen ashhar

From : Kerala, India

Qualification : BBA Graduate

Graduated from : Jaipur National University

Work Experience : 7+ years in HR & Commercial

Work Location : United Arab Emirates

A Cyber Security Aspirant

Hi today I am going to tell you about Openvas . So lets understand what is openvas ??

What is Openvas ?

A vulnerability scanner enables the monitoring of networks, systems, and applications for security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability management scanners like OpenVAS identify and classify potential points of weakness in your infrastructure, quantify the possible risk, and recommend mitigations to remediate the problem.

https://www.bugcrowd.com/glossary/openvas-vulnerability-scanner

Here is the problem I know about Nmap so why should I use a new tool . So let us understand the diffrence between Nmap and Openvas

Openvas is like it will scan the the IP address provided and get us all the specific information needed for the penetration test and you will be provided by a report whereas nmap sends a packet to the target and receive the target returned from the target these packet were read provide us with the output.. Nmap will not provide us with report

Lets first try scanning using Nmap

I got the result but the problem here I will have to scan it again if I need to look for something specific. I will have to scan it again or I can give an additional code > output.txt.This report will be in a file called output.txt.

Now lets try with Openvas which is a vulnerability management scanners.for this we need open the terminal and

enter sudo gvm-start