9CREATING AN ASSET AND VULNERABILITY DATABASE
In this chapter, you’ll learn to get the outputs from OpenVAS and Nmap into your Mongo database. You’ll start by exploring some general practices for working with data. Next, you’ll look at the XML output formats of both tools and learn to select the specific data fields you’re interested in. Then you’ll walk through a few Python scripts that will collect all this data, generate Mongo documents, and insert those documents into the database.
Preparing the Database
To design a database, you’ll need to understand your desired outcomes and the analysis you’ll have to do to achieve those outcomes. Then ...
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