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OPENVAS COMMUNITY EDITION, OPENVAS SCAN Appliances and Greenbone Cloud Service in Comparison

Properties and Features

The OPENVAS COMMUNITY EDITION, the OPENVAS SCAN Appliances and the Greenbone Cloud Service differ in terms of solution delivery, deployment and support:

Criteria OPENVAS COMMUNITY EDITION OPENVAS SCAN  Appliances Greenbone Cloud Service
Setup Individual selection of operating system and hardware

Built on own responsibility or installation of community packages

Turnkey solution

Simple and uncomplicated setup within shortest time

Simple account registration, and configuration within shortest time
Feed Compatibility Established on own responsibility Assured with SLA Assured with SLA
Performance Optimized on own responsibility Optimized for hardware Variable according to requirements
Backup/Recovery Solved individually Integrated Integrated
Fixes/Improvements Managed on own responsibility Assured with SLA Assured with SLA
Support Via (external) community on voluntary basis Assured with SLA Assured with SLA
Software Updates Manual source build updates and manual migration of data Regularly and seamlessly Continuously

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The detailed differences between the solutions and the according feed are explained in our WhitePaper
Our Solutions in Comparison.

The features of the different solutions are tailored to the respective environment:

Criteria OPENVAS COMMUNITY EDITION OPENVAS SCAN Appliances Greenbone Cloud Service
Possibilities for Updates & Feed Only Greenbone Community Feed Daily automatic

Possible via per appliance configurable sync ports, redundant proxy servers, USB or FTP Airgap, or appliance master

Daily automatic
System Update Dependent on distribution or on own responsibility Contains security updates

Update from any version to latest release possible

Grace periods for EoL and LTS

Migration of data and configurations between appliances and versions

Automatic

Continuous security and platform updates

Protocols Configured and set up on own responsibility NTP, GMP, OSP, HTTPS, SSH,SNMPv2, SNMP, Syslog, IPv6, LDAP, RADIUS and more

NTP, GMP, HTTPS, SSH, SNMPv2, SNMP, Syslog, LDAP, RADIUS and more

Integrations and Connectors Not available Different vendors like PaloAlto, Fortinet, Cisco FireSight, Nagios, Splunk, Verinice and more RESTful API for all functionalities
Backup/Recovery Solved individually Backup for user data, system data via LVM, transfer via SCP or USB Automatic
Alerts/Schedules Configured on own responsibility via operating system Via e-mail, HTTP, SMS, connector to a SIEM or ticket system and more

Complete scheduling possible

Via e-mail, Slack or Microsoft Teams
Scan Architecture Not available Master/sensor, Airgap inside of high security zones Cloud scanner, gateway components for internal scans

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