7SETTING UP YOUR ENVIRONMENT

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To start constructing a complete vulnerability management system, you must first build the foundation. In this chapter, you’ll set up the base Linux environment for your ­system, install the tools you’ll use in the following chapters, and write a script to ensure all the components are regularly updated.

Setting Up the System

Your first step, of course, is to set up a Linux-based environment for the basic tools you’ll use to build your system: those tools include Nmap, OpenVAS, cve-search, and Metasploit.

HARDWARE PREREQUISITES

For a small network, you’ll only need one CPU and 4GB of RAM. But for larger environments, ...

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