Project Summary
The Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) is a framework of several services:
- The Greenbone Vulnerability Manager (gvmd) is the central service that consolidates plain vulnerability scanning into a full vulnerability management solution.
- The Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) is the web interface of GVM.
- The main scanner OpenVAS Scanner is a full-featured scan engine that executes a continuously updated and extended feed of Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs).
- Complementary to the web interface, GVM-Tools allows batch processing / scripting via the Greenbone Management Protocol (GMP).
In a Nutshell, Greenbone Vulnerability Management (G...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 210 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2005
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
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