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Protect Your IT Infrastructure from Hackers and Malware

With the World’s Most Widely Used Open-Source Vulnerability Management System

Every cyberattack must exploit some type of vulnerability to be successful. Greenbone’s mission is to identify IT security vulnerabilities and weaknesses before they can be exploited. We reduce the risk and impact of cyberattacks on companies, organizations, and workplaces by up to 99.9%.

Our Enterprise Vulnerability Management solutions leverage over 180,000 vulnerability tests, with new tests added daily. As a result, our success rate in uncovering known vulnerabilities (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, CVE) is significantly higher than that of our competitors. Greenbone also offers web application pentesting services to gain extra security protection for online services.

Greenbone is available in a line of dedicated hardware appliances, virtual machine (VM) configurations compatible with all popular hypervisors, and as a cloud-native application. The latest addition is our entry-level solution Greenbone Basic. With over 50,000 installations and more than 100 partner companies, Greenbone is a globally recognized vulnerability management solution. Try us!

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Threema GmbH
Daniel Steiner, System Engineer

“Our company stands for security and data protection. We have to maintain a very high standard of security on our servers. As we also attach great importance to privacy, we do not use any cloud-based tools. The on-premise Greenbone Enterprise Appliance automatically performs regular security scans on all our servers. The “Greenbone Enterprise Feed” ensures that current security vulnerabilities are found.”

Threema is the world’s best-selling secure instant messenger. More than twelve million users – including over three million business users – rely on the services from Switzerland, which are consistently designed for data protection and data avoidance. No other chat service offers a comparable level of security, metadata restraint and confidentiality.

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JobRad GmbH
Thomas Goch, System Engineer

“We recently started using the Greenbone Cloud Service. The cloud-based vulnerability management tool gives us peace of mind that our sensitive data is in safe hands, fully GDPR compliant. In addition, the Greenbone Cloud Service offer unparalleled flexibility and scalability, which has been instrumental in helping my company grow. Overall, I highly recommend this tool to anyone looking to improve the security of their business.”

“We get people out on bikes.” Founded in 2008 in the cycling city of Freiburg, the company JobRad aims from the very beginning to establish the company bicycle as an equal alternative to the company car in Germany.

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Andreas Lockau, Head of IT & Medical Technology (MIT)

“For us, IT security is not a one-off project, but an ongoing process. With Greenbone’s solution, we continuously check our systems for vulnerabilities and minimize IT risks in a targeted manner. This is a great addition to our Information Security Management System (ISMS), which integrates a SIEM solution and a SOC. This enables us to protect sensitive patient data in the long term and strengthen the digital resilience of our hospital IT.”

The Niels Stensen Clinics are the largest healthcare organisation in the Osnabrück-Emsland region. The network includes somatic hospitals, specialist clinics for psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy, long-term and short-term care facilities, and a large training center for healthcare professions. There are also specialist medical care centres.

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ADN Distribution GmbH
Hermann Ramacher, CEO

“Greenbone is the top favorite among vulnerability management solutions for ADN, which clearly stands out from the field of competitors. I value the cooperation very much. We speak the same language. For us as a distributor, this is an important plus.“

As an IT distributor, service provider and technology provider, ADN Distribution GmbH is a reliable partner for more than 6,000 resellers, system houses and managed service providers in the DACH region. The company combines a future-proof portfolio of modern IT solutions from the areas of cloud services, cyber security, data center infrastructure, UCC and modern workplace.

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ALSO Deutschland GmbH
Mike Rakowski, CEO

“Greenbone products are the perfect addition to our company portfolio besides reactive security tools like firewalls and convince us and our partners in quality and performance. In combination with the professional cooperation with the Greenbone team, this opens up very good sales opportunities for us in the IT market.”

ALSO is one of the leading technology providers for the ICT industry, currently operating in 29 countries in Europe and in a total of 144 countries worldwide through PaaS partners. The ALSO ecosystem comprises a total potential of around 120,000 resellers to whom we offer hardware, software and IT services from more than 700 vendors in over 1450 product categories.

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Michael Wessel, CEO

“The security of our customers’ IT networks is our top priority. Therefore, we appreciate the high quality and reliability of Greenbone and their products and services. We are very much looking forward to further cooperation and together we are declaring war on the vulnerability of IT systems!”

Michael Wessel Informationstechnologie GmbH is a multi-vendor service provider for a wide range of information technologies. They enhance the performance of companies in all industries through strategic consulting, digital solutions and professional IT services.

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What are the benefits of vulnerability management?

999 out of 1,000 vulnerabilities have been known for over a year. Vulnerability management can identify and fix these before attackers exploit them, significantly reducing the IT infrastructure’s attack surface.

Vulnerability management systems are automated and, with features like schedules and custom scans, allow users to create processes that continuously check for vulnerabilities.

For which companies is vulnerability management a useful tool?

Every company derives significant benefit from using vulnerability management, as it can be used to achieve proactive security.

Greenbone’s vulnerability management solutions are suitable for businesses and government agencies of all sizes. Solutions are available for both micro-enterprises where only a few IP addresses need to be scanned and large enterprises with many branch offices.

What kind of knowledge do I need for vulnerability management from Greenbone?

The basis for effective vulnerability management is the awareness regarding a potential threat and a strong commitment to address and fix any possible vulnerabilities within the system.

The mere integration of our vulnerability management solution is comparatively easy. Nevertheless, advanced IT knowledge at admin level is an advantage.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability management is an IT security process that aims to find vulnerabilities in the IT infrastructure, classify their severity and, in addition, provide a list of actions to be taken to address the vulnerabilities. The goal is to eliminate vulnerabilities so that they can no longer pose a risk.

Vulnerability management is an IT security process that focuses on finding vulnerabilities in the IT infrastructure, classifying their severity and additionally providing recommendations for remediation measures. The goal is to eliminate vulnerabilities so that they cannot be exploited by cyber criminals.

Both the Greenbone Enterprise Appliances and the Greenbone Cloud Service use the Greenbone Enterprise Feed. This is a collection of over 100,000 vulnerability tests (VTs). Put simply, for every known vulnerability, there is a vulnerabiliaty test that detects that exact vulnerability on the active elements of the IT infrastructure – desktops, servers, appliances, and intelligent components such as routers or VoIP devices.

The scanning service runs the tests on the network to be tested and thus detects existing vulnerabilities. These are rated according to their severity, which enables prioritization of remediation actions.

The price of our solution is always based on the environment to be scanned. Depending on whether you are interested in a virtual appliance, a physical appliance or our cloud solution, our solutions cost between a few euros per month to several hundred thousand euros.

Vulnerability management is not a one-off operation, but an ongoing process that is firmly integrated into IT security. The steps from the detection to the elimination of vulnerabilities run continuously in a constant cycle.

The duration of a scan always depends on the number of systems to be scanned or IP addresses to be scanned. Vulnerability management makes sense for any size of system, but can run for several hours as a background activity depending on the complexity of the respective scan.

Absolutely, because the systems mentioned focus on attack patterns – looking from the inside out. The goal is to ward off attacks that are actually taking place. Firewalls or similar systems therefore often only intervene once the attack has already happened.

In contrast, vulnerability management looks at the IT infrastructure from the outside in – similar to the perspective of attackers. The goal is to close vulnerabilities that could be exploited by potential attackers so that an attack does not even occur.

High-quality firewall systems may detect vulnerabilities, but unlike vulnerability management, they do not offer a solution approach for a detected vulnerability. In addition, firewalls, IDS or IPS systems also only detect vulnerabilities if the system allows it at all, and then only on the data traffic that passes through the respective security system.
Traffic that does not pass through the security system is not analyzed. If a Greenbone solution is in the network, every component that can be reached via an IP connection can also be checked for vulnerabilities, regardless of which device it is. This therefore also applies, for example, to industrial components, robots or production facilities.

A combination of both vulnerability management and firewall & co. is the best solution. With vulnerability management, other systems can be focused specifically on hotspots.

Patch management involves updating systems, applications and products to eliminate security vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability management is used to find, classify and prioritize existing vulnerabilities and recommend measures to eliminate them. Such a measure can be a patch, for example.

Patch management thus presupposes vulnerability management. After all, it only makes sense to patch if existing vulnerabilities are known.

In addition, patch management usually only works in IT components, but not in industrial plants and control systems, for example.

Furthermore, a patch management system requires extensive and controlling admin intervention, since not every patch is useful or uncritical for the respective system. Often, new patches also bring new vulnerabilities that a patch management system does not detect.

Patch management is a useful complement to vulnerability management an, as these systems can in turn automate patching. Under certain circumstances, our vulnerability management can also provide information directly to a patch management system, so that patching can be performed directly on the basis of security-critical assessments.

Yes, even with regular updates and patches, vulnerability management makes sense.

For example, system dependencies often do not allow an up-to-date patch. Possible reasons for this could be that special business-critical applications could lose their certification as a result or functions could be impaired.

In addition, there is not a patch for every vulnerability, or updates repeatedly create new vulnerabilities themselves. These are often not detected if no vulnerability management system is in use, which automatically checks all components again and again.

Furthermore, even a software version with current updates cannot rule out misconfigurations that lead to vulnerabilities. Classic examples of this are an administrator password “12345678” or file system shares with accidental Internet opening.

Another disadvantage for OT components is that updates cannot be automated in most cases.

Yes, continuous vulnerability management combined with patch management will gradually result in a much more resilient environment.

The biggest challenge is the initial setup and integration into the networks. But even this is possible for all our solutions within a very short time. In addition, you will receive support from Greenbone at any time.

Since it is recommended to work with different scan plans, a comprehensive asset management is required in advance of the vulnerability management to distinguish critical from less critical assets.

These days, all companies, no matter how large they are or what industry they belong to, are increasingly the focus of attackers. The most important prerequisite for vulnerability management is that those responsible in the company are aware of this fact and are willing to take appropriate preventive measures.

It is also important that you, as a potential customer, inform yourself in detail in advance: Have the performance of the solution shown to you in a test and inform yourself extensively about the acquisition and all running costs. Further technical requirements are not necessary, as the mere integration is very simple.