During an internal security assessment, you must recommend a vulnerability scanner that meets these customer requirements: it must be fully open source, provide a web-based Greenbone Security Assistant dashboard, pull daily updates from the Greenbone Community Feed, and be able to run credentialed scans against both Linux and Windows hosts. Which tool best satisfies all of these needs?
OpenVAS, now distributed as part of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) platform, is entirely open source. Its default web interface is Greenbone Security Assistant, and it relies on the publicly available Greenbone Community Feed for daily vulnerability checks. OpenVAS supports both unauthenticated and authenticated (credentialed) scans on a wide range of operating systems, including Windows and Linux. Nessus Essentials, Rapid7 Nexpose Community Edition, and Qualys FreeScan are free or trial offerings but remain proprietary products that neither provide the Greenbone interface nor use the Greenbone Community Feed, so they do not meet all stated requirements.
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