Re: Fully Automating Security Scanners

[Jim Halfpenny <jim.halfpenny () gmail com>]

On 11 June 2011 17:09, Anatoly Bodner <abodner () gmail com> wrote:
> Has anyone ever looked into scripting/automating community or commercial
> security scanners? Are there utilities which anyone found helpful to support
> this? How effective and what aspects of automation have you been able to
> achieve, auto execution of regularly-scheduled scans, or creation and
> modification of new scans, targets, and outputs of reports?
> Anatoly
> abodner () gmail com

There has been an effort to create automation tools around OpenVAS.
Take a look at Greenbone Security Assistant which provides a web GUI
for OpenVAS and supports scheduled scans as well as managing hosts,
groups and credentials. It will save scan reports in a number of
formats including Nessus XML, HTML and PDF.

Regards,
Jim
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