Greenbone develops vulnerability management software: finding, assessing and prioritising security weaknesses in IT systems. At its core is OpenVAS, an open-source scanner, complemented by commercial products. OpenVAS Scan is available as a hardware appliance or as a virtual machine on common hypervisors and uses the Greenbone Enterprise Feed of daily-updated vulnerability tests. Greenbone also offers the Greenbone Cloud Service, which lets organisations scan their networks as a service without installing appliances themselves.
Greenbone AG is headquartered in Osnabrück, Germany. According to the company, Cloud Service data is stored and processed exclusively in German data centres, with no transfer to third countries. Organisations that want more control can run the scanner themselves as an appliance or virtual machine in their own environment. For a European organisation this means a supplier headquartered in the EU, an open-source foundation that can be inspected, and the choice between a managed service and self-hosted use.