OPENVAS: The new name for proven Greenbone security
More than 15 years, OPENVAS has stood for excellent open source security worldwide – from small businesses to public institutions to operators of critical infrastructure. OPENVAS is developed by Greenbone and is behind both Greenbone’s enterprise products and the community versions. The OPENVAS brand inspires global confidence in a highly developed open source solution that stands up well against proprietary competitors.
From now on, we are placing the name OPENVAS at the center of all our activities. Our proven solutions and new products will now appear under a single, strong brand: OPENVAS.
Why we chose OPENVAS
OPENVAS is internationally recognized, stands for trust and open source, and clearly describes what it’s all about: identifying and minimizing digital risks. With the new naming scheme, we are making our solutions even more understandable, functional, and globally consistent. Originally intended only as the name of a technical component, the actual vulnerability scanner, the name has itself as the designation for our established product portfolio. We are happy to embrace this and use our open source established OPENVAS brand in all our product names.
For our users, customers, and partners, this means that everything you value about our solutions remains the same — just under new, more descriptive names. And there’s more to come this year: container scanning, agent-based scanning, a new REST API, and much more.
What does this mean for you specifically?
- What you know stays the same: Your solutions will work as usual, including all services and security updates.
- Names that create clarity: Each product name now directly describes its function – saving time and avoiding misunderstandings.
- Strong brand, clear communication: We operate nationally and internationally under a single name – OPENVAS.
Our proven goal: to offer you the best solution for minimizing digital risks quickly, easily, and transparently.
What does this mean for our existing appliance products?
Our existing products will continue to be updated as usual. At the same time, they will be given new names, with OPENVAS always at the center.
A few examples: OPENVAS SCAN is the new product name for the Greenbone Enterprise Appliances, the while designations will remain unchanged. Familiar performance Greenbone Enterprise EXA will become OPENVAS SCAN EXA, and Greenbone Enterprise 600 will become OPENVAS SCAN 600.
Our free community products will of course continue to be available. We are using the name OPENVAS COMMUNITY EDITION for our free appliance and OPENVAS COMMUNITY FEED for the associated data feed with vulnerability tests and security information.
Greenbone remains – OPENVAS becomes new brand name
Greenbone remains the name of our company – headquartered in Germany and with our subsidiaries in the UK, Italy, and the Netherlands. The name Greenbone has become well established in German-speaking countries, which is why we have decided not to rename Greenbone AG as OPENVAS AG. Internationally, we are much better known as OPENVAS and therefore will operate under the OPENVAS brand: OPENVAS UK, OPENVAS IT, OPENVAS NL.
By strengthening our OPENVAS brand, in over 150 countries around the world we are making our mission visible: to make cybersecurity understandable, trustworthy, and accessible.
