Is it worth running nessus as well as OpenVAS?

Posted by kdt on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by kdt
Published on 2010-11-16T13:26:47Z Indexed on 2011/02/25 15:26 UTC
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Apparently OpenVAS originated as a fork of Nessus. It is very easy to install and use OpenVAS because it's, well, open. However, am I kidding myself if I just use that instead of Nessus? Should I be using both, or if I use Nessus then is OpenVAS surplus to requirements?

To break it down into non-subjective sub-questions: * Is openvas a superset or subset of nessus? * Is one updated more often than the other? * Does one have a bigger vulnerability database than the other? * ...or are there other qualitative differences that I may be missing?

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