Greenbone is the German company stewarding OpenVAS, the leading open-source vulnerability scanner, with free and commercial editions. The free OpenVAS Community Edition (GPLv2) sits beside commercial OPENVAS appliances (hardware and virtual) and the entry OPENVAS BASIC product, all self-hostable on-prem or in cloud, with a maintained Enterprise vulnerability feed. It focuses on authenticated network and container-image scanning; it is explicitly not a web-application (DAST) scanner. Long-standing BSI collaboration; ISO 27001/9001/14001 and TISAX certified.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2008
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Vulnerability management
- Agent-based
- No
- Agentless scanning
- Yes
- Web app scanning (DAST)
- No
- Container scanning
- Yes
- Cloud scanning
- No
- Risk prioritization
- No
- Open-source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes: OpenVAS Community Edition free & open-source (GPLv2, self-install); commercial OPENVAS BASIC from ~EUR2,524/yr