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!

Installing and using OpenVAS

Today we will see a great utility that we can use to perform security analysis on our infrastructure, what less than from time to time to know how many vulnerabilities we have to be somewhat safer in the face of a virus attack, Trojan or Ramon ware on duty. In this document we will install OpenVAS 9 on a Debian machine 9 Stretch and we'll look at a basic use to get a report, in a future document we will integrate it with… Nagios!