From the course: Ethical Hacking: Vulnerability Analysis

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Vulnerabilities or weaknesses exist in many different places: in software, operating systems, networks, and even people. We know that we should test for vulnerabilities on a regular basis but the good news is that there are many choices today for vulnerability assessment tools. Some are free, some are online, and some are subscription-based. Let's take a look at a couple of examples. I'm here at HackerTarget.com, OpenVas is a comprehensive security scanner that helps identify vulnerabilities and also provides the risk rating and score for each vulnerability. OpenVas is subscription based, and I'll scroll down here, and here it just talks about some of the benefits of OpenVas. Tripwire is another type of product that you can get to provide vulnerability scanning. And I'll scroll down and it talks about some of the benefits of this type of scanning. And if you're curious about how this impacts in a positive way in…

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