8USING THE DATA COLLECTION TOOLS
The goal for your vulnerability management system is to have usable vulnerability data in a database to make it easy to search, analyze, and generate automated reports. You’ve installed all the basic tools, but your database is empty.
In this chapter, you’ll look at the tools you’ll use to collect the raw data for your vulnerability management system: they include Nmap, OpenVAS, and cve-search. To gain some basic familiarity with each tool, you’ll run each manually to explore its configuration options and see what kind of data you can collect with it. If you’re already familiar with these tools, you can move on ...
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