Looking for suggestions on free/libre open source security scanning and pen testing products

[Wynona Stacy Lockwood]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:05 PM Eric Vanderveer <eric at ericvanderveer.com>
wrote:

> Well OpenVAS is pretty much the only open source application for this.
> The only other alternative is using nmap and a module called Vulscan from
> marcruef on github.   Paid ones of course are Nessus, Qualys and NetSaint
> plus others.  I myself have used Nessus which OpenVas is a fork of.
>
> Eric Vanderveer
>

 Honestly, same. I used Nessus as far back as 3.x when it was still open
source as well. How do you keep your OpenVAS instance from breaking every
time it updates? Do you use their VM appliance, or build it from a repo? Or
from source? I'm just REALLY tired of having to kill the machine and
completely reinstall it.

-- 
Wynona Stacy Lockwood
stacy at guppylog.com
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