Greenbone Networks Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

VA solutions identify, categorize and prioritize vulnerabilities as well as orchestrate their remediation or mitigation. Their primary focus is vulnerability and security configuration assessments for enterprise risk identification and reduction, and reporting against various compliance standards. VA can be delivered via on-premises, hosted and cloud-based solutions, and it may use appliances and agents.
Core capabilities include:
- Discovery, identification and reporting on device, OS, software vulnerabilities and configuration against security-related criteria
- Establishing a baseline for systems, applications and databases to identify and track changes in state
- Reporting options for compliance, control frameworks and multiple roles
Standard capabilities include:
- Pragmatic remediation prioritization with the ability to correlate vulnerability severity, asset context and threat context that then presents a better picture of true risk for your specific environment
- Guidance for remediating and configuring compensating controls
- Management of scanner instances, agents and gateways
- Direct integration with, or API access to, asset management tools, workflow management tools and patch management tools

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Greenbone Vulnerability Management

Greenbone Networks

It is a good and reliable open-source vulnerability scanning which identifies the security vulnerabilities in the network and system very intelligently.

50M - 250M USD

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30B + USD

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

SENIOR SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT CONS

Greenbone VM generates comprehensive reports and is very easy to use.

IT SUPERVISOR

It provides an extensive security vulnerabilities in the network. It is an open source and cost effective. It can be integrated with other security tools. 

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Greenbone provides enterprise IT with a solution for vulnerability analysis that encompasses security change management and reporting. The company's approach is centred around transparency, using dynamic organizational processes akin to the Free Software model but on a professional level. Greenbone aims to offer a verifiable product instead of an inscrutable one, with a robust quality assurance process for customers. Founded in 2008 by experienced individuals in network security and Free Software, the company is dedicated to creating products and strategies capable of facing current and forthcoming network security challenges. By focusing on preventative measures, Greenbone aims to expose network vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, as this is an efficient way to reduce both risk and cost. The company is based in Osnabrück, Germany and operates as a private entity.

Greenbone delivers a vulnerability analysis solution for enterprise IT which includes reporting and security change management.

The essence of our solutions is transparency. We leverage the dynamic organizational processes of the Free Software approach on professional grounds, staying connected to the roots. We add a comprehensive quality assurance process for our customers and are particularly concerned with providing a verifiable product rather than a black box.

The company was founded in 2008 by leading experts in the field of network security and Free Software with the goal to engineer products and concepts able to cope with the present and future challenges of preventing successful attacks to your network. We especially focus on the precautionary measures because it is most risk/cost efficient to detect network vulnerability earlier than attackers do. Greenbone is a privately owned company located in Osnabr√ºck, Germany.

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