What is Vsam?Vsam (Vulnerability, Scanning, Analysis and Management) is a open source virtual appliance developed and distributed in an effort to bring to the security community a tool to provide full management capabilities to Nessus scan data. Based on the great work of the Inprotect project, Vsam extends the ability of Inprotect by bringing the power of virtualization to this highly functional project. Distributed as a "black box" appliance, no knowledge of Lunix or any underlying software is required. Once downloaded and setup in a VMware environement, Vsam can be ready to use in minutes.Vsam 1.10 is now available!!! The upgrade contains a re-designed engine to support Nessus 4.2.2 Details on Vsam and the upgrade are available HERE!! Download Vsam 1.10 from HERE!! |
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Why Vsam?As a
virtual appliance, Vsam is designed to be easy to install and use, yet
demonstrating
functionality generally only available in high cost commercial tools. The product is based around Inprotect's
code,
a project that has been around the security community since 2002. While the Inprotect code is a very
functional, there is one problem that remains with the project. Inprotect is just code. It
still
requires
installation
and
configuration….a
difficult
task
requiring
knowledge
of
several
products
including
Linux,
Apache,
Mysql
and
PHP. Vsam
solves this problem by distributing as a pre-setup virtual secure
appliance,
complete with a setup script.
Additional functionality has been added to make backups and restores as
easy as a mouse click allowing security administrators to ensure data
and
configuration are maintained through upgrades and system crashes. |