Greenbone - The Greenbone Security Manager VM is perfect for any size of company

The Greenbone Security Manager (GSM) for vulnerability management 'Made in Germany' is being used in more and more companies. It can be easily integrated into existing network infrastructures and security concepts.

By reducing vulnerable points, such as outdated software, unchanged standard passwords and configuration errors, you can make your network less attractive to attackers.

The Greenbone Security Manager is based on OpenVAS, which is also developed by Greenbone under the GNU GPL licence. This means that anyone can view and check the source code of the scanner. This transparency is especially important in companies where the security of the network and the data in it is subject to the highest standards. The Greenbone Security Manager has all the features of OpenVAS and adds a few more.

For example, the security feed is more detailed and can be updated automatically. It is also possible to connect the GSM via interfaces to already existing devices in one's own network. The automation of scans is also reserved for the GSM.

One has the free choice of whether to use the Greenbone Security Manager as a hardware appliance or as a virtual machine (VM).

The virtual Greenbone Security Manager is also licensed according to capacity. This means, for example, that you can scan up to 500 IPs per day with a GSM CENO. It does not matter how many IPs are actually in the network. For example, if you have 2,500 IPs in the network, you could scan 500 IPs per day and would have scanned all IPs once in 5 days.

The licensing model of the VMs is comparable to the licensing model of the hardware models.

The Greenbone Security Manager supports both VMWare ESXi and Huawei FusionCompute V8.0.0.

In terms of functions, the hardware and VPN versions are almost identical. However, there are a few differences. The hardware appliance offers hardware-based encryption of all sensitive data. A VM logically cannot do this. On the other hand, backup and recovery via VM snapshots are much easier to manage. In addition, the hardware of the host system can be used more efficiently with a virtual machine in combination with other VMs. In addition, space can be saved in the rack, as no additional hardware is needed if a host system with the corresponding capacities is already available.