My Presentation on Risk Assessments

Recently at the Jack Henry Smokey Mountain User Group meeting I did a presentation on risk assessments. You can find a link to a video I created here or watch it below.

Here is the presentation.

OpenVAS 6 and CentOS 6.4

On April 17th OpenVAS 6 was released. The OpenVAS folks have provided install instructions for installation on a variety of Red Hat flavors that can be found here.  Sometime soon they will be releasing a virtual appliance with everything up and running. However, in the mean time I wanted to try   out the new release.
The install instructions for CentOS did not quite get me there. After I followed the instructions on the OpenVAS site I hit the Greenbone UI at https://localhost:9392. When I tried to log in a red error message came up that said the OMP service was down. OMP stands for OpenVAS Management Protocol. It is for doing things like starting / stopping scans and creating / deleting users. In order to save some of you the trouble I created a complete list of commands to get OpenVAS 6 up and running on CentOS 6.4.

# wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh
# yum install openvas
# openvas-setup
# openvas-certdata-sync
# openvasmd --rebuild
# openvasmd

Note the 'yum install openvas' and 'openvasmd --rebuild' commands will take a few minutes. So be patient with them. I look forward to working with the new version and seeing what it can do.