Threats and Vulnerability Scanning
Discuss how you could use OpenVAS to identify and resolve security threats and vulnerabilities in an organization’s IT infrastructure. How could cloud-based vendors use OpenVAS to identify and resolve security threats and vulnerabilities in cloud-based services, platforms, and software applications which they provide? Why would you need to continue to run OpenVAS on a periodic basis to continue to scan for threats and vulnerabilities?
Note: this is just discussion so it should be less than a page about 280-300words
Answer previewOpen Vulnerability Assessment System also known as OpenVAS is a system that assess the possible vulnerabilities and security issues in the servers and network devices of an organization. It is also a host to several tools that are used to provide vulnerability scanning and tests. All the products of the system are offered for free and are all licensed under the GNU General Public License (Developers, 2015). There are several ways that the OpenVAS can be used to identify as well…
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