Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus

["DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Jan-Oliver Wagner <> wrote:
> What we, the OpenVAS team, also do is to further develop a powerful
> framwork around the actual scan engine. We call this
> "Vulnerability Management" as a level beyond "Vulnerability Scanning".
> All the best
>
>        Jan
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I think that sums it up best.  Nessus and OpenVAS are designed to be
Vulnerability Management systems while Nmap is designed to be a
Vulnerability Scanner which can provide data to a Vulnerability
Management system.

-Jason
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