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Open. Transparent. Professional

The Greenbone Community Edition and the Greenbone Security Manager

Connected and committed

Open-source IT-Security does not only deliver a high level of transparency of the solution itself. It is a contribution to the IT Security community in general. We are connected with this idea and committed to it.

Our Greenbone technology is available in two different versions. The Greenbone Security Manager (GSM), build for the professional use in enterprises and administrations, delivered as a turn-key appliance; and the Greenbone Community Edition (a.k.a. as OpenVAS) for the security-aware user in SOHO environments.

The requirements make the difference. See for yourself:

Main differences between the GSM and the GCE are listed in the tables below:

The Security Feed for both versions differs in content, quality and availability.

Greenbone Security Feed Greenbone Community Feed
Quality Assurance (QA) Consistent Variable
Availability Assured with SLA No promise
Fixes / Improvements Assured with SLA No promise
Support Assured with SLA Via community on volunteer basis
Updates Constantly / daily Constantly / daily, but without enterprise features
Transfer Encrypted Unencrypted
NVT Signatures SLA for QA/Fixes Transfer Integrity

 

 

Greenbone Community Edition (OpenVAS)

Since 2005 Greenbone is the leading force of the ongoing development of the GCE (a.k.a. OpenVAS) and organizes the bi-annual international Developer’s conference ( Osnabrück in 2007, 2009 and 2011, 2013 and 2015 in Hildesheim).

The Appliance stands for less effort in setup and operation.

Greenbone Security Manager Own GCE (OpenVAS) – Installation
Setting-up Turn-key (ca 10 minutes) Selection of operating system and hardware, then build on your own or install readily available community packages; perhaps use a community VM
Coverage Concerted: All OpenVAS modules with several scan tools Select and align on your own or take community defaults
Feed compatibility Assured with SLA Establish your own
Performance Optimzed for hardware Optimize on your own
Backup/Recovery Integrated To be solved individually
Fixes Assured with SLA To be managed on your own, perhaps import Community-Fixes
Support Assured with SLA Via community on volunteer basis
Updates Regularly and seamless On your own pace and method

See for yourself

Want to test the Greenbone solution? You can download our community edition or contact us to arrange a trial using one of our appliances.

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The Features of GSM and GCE are tailored to the environment:

  GSM (professional environments) GCE (SOHO environments)
Ways for Updates & Feed Possible via GSM Sync Port, via Proxy S-Connect, via AirGap, via GSM Master only Community Feed
System Update Contains Security Updates, can update from any version to latest release, Grace Periods for EoL and LTS, Migration of data and configurations between appliances and versions Not available
Protocols NTP, OMP, HTTPS, SSH, SNMPv2, SNMP, Syslog, IPv6, LDAP, RADIUS and more HTTPS only for WebGUI; SSH, IPv6
Integrations and Connectors Different vendors like PaloAlto, Fortinet, Cisco FireSight, NAGIOS, Splunk, Verinice and more Not available
Backup/Recovery Backup for User Data, System Data via LVM, Transfer via SCP or USB, Import of GCE Data, Transfer between appliances Only via environment (HyperVisor)
Alarms, Schedules Via Email, via HTTP, via SMS, via connector to a SIEM or Ticket system. complete scheduling possible Not available
Scan architecture Master/Slave, AirGap inside of high-sec zones Not available

Download now

You can get our Greenbone Community Edition here.

And here are the instructions for installation.

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