During a quarterly vulnerability assessment of a 200-host corporate network, you are instructed to select an open-source scanner that can run both credentialed and non-credentialed network checks, pulls daily CVE/NVT updates for risk scoring, and lets you generate PDF or XML compliance reports through its Greenbone Security Assistant web interface. Which tool best satisfies these requirements?
OpenVAS (now distributed as part of Greenbone Vulnerability Management) is an open-source framework that performs authenticated and unauthenticated network vulnerability scans, automatically updates its Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs) from public CVE feeds, and offers the Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) web console for scheduling scans and exporting results in formats such as PDF and XML. Nikto focuses only on web servers, Burp Suite is primarily a web application proxy with limited host-based vulnerability coverage, and sqlmap targets SQL injection testing rather than broad vulnerability assessment. Therefore, OpenVAS is the only option that meets all stated requirements.
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