Greenbone Security Feed

The Greenbone Security Feed is our foundation product. It is a stream of little procedures to detect known and potential security vulnerabilities in all active elements of your IT infrastructure: desktop computers, servers, appliances and intelligent components like routers or VoIP devices. These procedures are executed by a Scan Engine.

Reports on the current security situation of your devices are then automatically created from the findings. Additional the history of your security change (closed vulnerabilities) is kept and reported to provide you with a professional compliance solution for all of your vulnerability management. Based on a scoring you then have a guide to eliminate security risks and have a seamless integration with your system manangement process by standard Open Source protocols.

Benefits

• Provide out-of-the-box compliance
• Cost control - vulnerability management flatrate: unlimited ports, devices, IPs
  (One subscription per scan engine)
• Cost savings by pro-active vulnerability detection
• 100% white-box solution: no need to trust proprietary solutions
  (Feed and scan engine are delivered with full source code included)
• Globally networked development team: North-America, Europe and Asia
• Flexible integration into different vulnerability management strategies

Features

• Multi-tier quality assurance process
• Multiple daily updates
• Test routines are cryptographically signed by Greenbone
• Integrates OVAL, NMAP, SLAD
• Remote vulnerability tests and local vulnerability tests
• Tests are delivered with pre-defined scoring, customer-specific adjustable
• Coverage: MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Redhat, SUSE, Ubuntu), Solaris, HP-UX, Cisco and various active networks components
• Transparency: All test routines as well as scan engine provided with source code

Scan-Engine Compatibility

The reference platform for verification and tracking of problem reports regarding NVTs of the Greenbone Security Feed is the Greenbone Security Manager.

Further scan-engine platforms are available. The ones listed here maintain a close coordination with Greenbone Networks in order to keep best compatibility for the Greenbone Security Feed.

	Greenbone Security Manager Supported by: Greenbone Networks GmbH Minimum requirements: Greenbone Security Manager Version 1.0.1
	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Supported by: Novell Minimum requirements: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 11 SP1
	OpenVAS 3.0, 3.1 and 4 Supported by: OpenVAS Community Minimum requirements: OpenVAS Scanner Version 3.0.0

OEM License

Greenbone Networks offers integration of the Greenbone Security Feed into products of other vendors. The level of integration is individually agreed upon. The integration can be as extensive as relabelling GSF and entirely integrating the scan-engine into the vendor's product.