Greenbone Vulnerability Management

Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) is an enterprise-scale vulnerability management and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform engineered to discover, evaluate, and prioritize cybersecurity risks and configuration weaknesses across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Engineered with German data sovereignty standards, it delivers comprehensive vulnerability risk governance for regulated organizations.

The solution unifies the OpenVAS scanning engine, the Greenbone Management Daemon (gvmd), and the Greenbone Security Assistant web interface into a scalable software architecture. Key technical capabilities include automated scheduled network scans against over 150,000 vulnerability tests, authenticated host compliance checks, CVSS risk prioritization, asset management and network topology discovery, delta reporting tracking newly opened vulnerabilities over time, and automated alert dispatching via email and syslog. Users manage multiple remote scanning sensors from a single management console.

Enterprises, municipal governments, and critical infrastructure operators implement Greenbone Vulnerability Management to safeguard network boundaries and comply with strict national data protection laws. It integrates seamlessly with VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and enterprise ticketing platforms. Common operational use cases include scanning complex enterprise data centers for outdated software packages, auditing compliance with BSI IT-Grundschutz and ISO 27001 standards, tracking vulnerability remediation lifecycles, and providing executive leadership with actionable cyber risk scorecards.