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Monitoring vulnerabilities with Nagios and OpenVAS

Well, Well! Another of the wonders that we can do with Nagios or Centreon is… the possibility of monitoring vulnerabilities in our computers! How great, truth?? We will rely on OpenVAS, We will use the checks we have to centralize them from a single console. We will be able to know how many vulnerabilities our servers put at risk and analyze their evolution with the graphs and of course receive alerts!

LANguard Network Security Scanner

You can download it from AKI. First things, Create a Scan Profile: To do this, we are going to “Configuration” > “Scanning profiles” > right button and > “New” > “Scanning Profile”:

NeWT Security Scanner (Nessus for Windows)

We downloaded it from AKI, We install and run it:

Scanner Nmap

Download it from AKI, and unzip it. It will be necessary to have the WinPcap libraries, If you don't have them, Download the latest version of HTTP://winpcap.polito.it/ or AKI.

Web Server Vulnerability Scanner: N-Stealth Security Scanner

N-Stealth is a non-free web server security scanner. It is generally, Updated more frequently than free web scanners such as Whisker and Nikto, but they exaggerate on their website. Allege “20.000 Vulnerabilities and exploits” so what “Dozens of vulnerability checks are added every day” And this is highly questionable. Also, It should be noted that basically, All General Tools Vulnerability Analysis {“VA tools”} such as nessus, ISS, Retina, SAINT, and SARA include components for web scanning. Maybe they are not so up-to-date, or are flexible enough. n-stealth is only for Windows and the source code is not included.

Vulnerability Scanner: Retina Network Security Scanner

Download it from AKI, And then, Like everyone else, First of all, keep it up to date, for this we open it.

Escaner de vulnerabilidad Shadow Security Scanner de Safety-lab

The first thing is to create the rules to be able to scan something, or else use an existing one.

X-Scan Vulnerability Scanner

This is a free vulnerability scanner, Its official website is: www.xfocus.org and those who have translated it into Spanish are the Seguridad0 team. You can download it from AKI, Not installed, you simply unzip it where you want and to open it you have to click on the executable (xscan_gui.exe).