The comperative analysis of IT vulnerability management solutions

Törőcsik Marietta <>
Óbudai Egyetem

Kozlovszky Miklós Dr. <>
Óbudai Egyetem



 

Nowadays we are witnessing an increasing number of information security incidents. The main targets of these incidents are the governmental systems and critical infrastructures. The main aim of our work is the evaluation and the comparative analysis of vulnerability manager software solutions. In the first section of our paper, we provide a short introduction, about vulnerability management.

Three main vulnerability management software have been chosen, namely QualysGuard, Nexpose and OpenVAS, and with pre-defined parameters we are evaluating their performance. In the second part of our paper we provide our test results, after we analyze the results we make the comparison, draw conclusions.

Keywords: vulnerability management solutions, information security