Entries by Greenbone AG

Intuitive and Clear: Complete Overview of the Security Situation of Your IT Infrastructure – for all Decision-Making Levels

Our newly developed product OPENVAS REPORT integrates the data from practically any number of Greenbone Enterprise Appliances and brings it into a clearly structured dashboard. The user-friendly and comprehensive interface considerably simplifies the protection and safeguarding of even large networks. Greenbone AG has been developing leading open source technologies for automated vulnerability management since 2008. […]

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Greenbone Detection Stays Strong Despite NIST NVD Outage

Despite the NVD (National Vulnerability Database) outage of the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Greenbone’s detection engine remains fully operational, offering reliable, vulnerability scanning without relying on missing CVE enrichment data. Since 1999 The MITRE Corporation’s Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) has provided free public vulnerability intelligence by publishing and managing information about […]

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Exciting New Features Arrive for Greenbone Enterprise Appliances

We’re excited to announce the release of several feature updates to our Greenbone Operating System (GOS), the software stack behind our physical and virtual Enterprise Appliances. The updates introduce new front-end features to enhance enterprise vulnerability management capabilities, and performance enhancing back-end features. The newest updates to the Greenbone Operating System (GOS), version 24.10, reflect […]

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#GreenboneGoesGlobal: Strong Presence at ITASEC 2025 in Bologna

ITASEC, Italy’s most important conference for cyber security, takes place in Bologna from February 3 to 8, 2025. As a platinum sponsor, Greenbone is sending a strong signal for European cooperation and digital security. This step demonstrates our commitment to a global presence and direct customer interaction.   New Perspectives in Italy and Worldwide “At […]

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Greenbone Audits CIS Google Chrome Benchmarks

Web browsers are a primary gateway to business and consequently they are also a primary gateway for cyber attacks. Malware targeting browsers could gain direct unauthorized access to a target’s network and data or social engineer victims into providing sensitive information that gives the attacker unauthorized access, such as account credentials. In 2024, major browsers […]

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Greenbone 2024 Review: A Very Good Year with Growth Everywhere

Also in its 16th year, the Osnabrück-based expert and market leader in Open Source Vulnerability Management has kept growing, both in employees, customers, partners and last not least on this blog. After doubling our workforce over the last two years, we at Greenbone are looking proudly at 143 employees, most of them work remotely. This […]

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Stop the Standstill: How Greenbone Helps Protect Against DoS Attacks

A DoS attack (Denial of Service) can mean a complete standstill: an important service fails, an application no longer responds or access to one’s own system is blocked. DoS attacks have a clear, destructive goal: to paralyze digital resources, preventing access to the legitimate users. The consequences of a DoS attack can be drastic: from […]

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Understanding Mass Exploitation Attacks

If an organization has high value, you can bet that bad actors are contemplating how to exploit its IT weaknesses for financial gain. Ransomware attacks are the apex threat in this regard, rendering a victim’s data unusable, extorting them for a decryption key. Highly targeted organizations need to understand exactly where their risk lies and […]

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… and Action! Greenbone at the it-sa Expo&Congress

Next week, it-sa, one of the largest platforms for IT security solutions, will kick off. On the opening day, October 22, 2024, from 11:00 a.m., Greenbone’s CEO Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner will show how companies can remain capable of managing crisis situations. With the “Action” in Forum 6-B “Be secure and stay secure” he shows ways […]

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