Hi Tatooin,

Thanks for the detailed information, I will test it out. No comments yet :)

best regards
joris

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:58 PM, tatooin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Joris,
>
> No comments on this ?
>
> Regards,
>
> On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 22:00 +0100, tatooin wrote:
>
> Hi Joris,
>
> I face the same challenge than you do; as my stakeholders regularly ask me
> for delta reports which can highlight the efforts made to solve
> vulnerabilities. People will simply stop fixing vulnerabilities if the work
> done to solve previous ones is not recognized.
> So I completely agree with your statement below.
>
> Alas, it seems out of interest of OpenVAS developers. I have raised this
> topic on this mailing list already, and never received any positive answers.
>
> I tried the official way to report delta (because officially, yes, this is
> suppose to work ! Look at command "*get_reports*", you have the arguments
> @*delta_report_id *and @*delta_states)*
>
> Typically, If I do the following command to get the deltas in a csv file:
>
> *omp -h 127.0.0.1 -u admin -w xxx -iX '<get_reports
> report_id="MyLastReportID" levels="hm"
> format_id="c1645568-627a-11e3-a660-406186ea4fc5"
> delta_report_id="MySecondLastReportID" delta_states="cgns" />' | xmlstarlet
> sel -t -v get_reports_response/report/text\(\) | base64 -i -d >
> deltareport.csv*
>
> Then my deltareport.csv won't highlight any delta. Do the same with
> format_id=1a60a67e-97d0-4cbf-bc77-f71b08e7043d (PDF) you'll get the
> deltas you are looking at.
>
> But obviously, when you are doing vulnerability management programs on a
> somewhat large scale, PDF reporting is completely useless....
>
> So in a nutshell; it is suppose to work but it doesn't. :-(
>
> Best,
>
> On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 10:12 +0100, Joris wrote:
>
> Thanks Thijs!
>
> You made me think about past results and not having to care about it: It
> is true that the tickets will be only generated on current results. On the
> other hand, does that mean that you create multiple tickets for the same
> issue if it appears in 2 consecutive scans?
>
> We're interested in differential for 2 other reasons:i Jori
> - from a security culture perspective, it would be interesting to report
> on reduction on vulnerabilities and create some noise about who is doing
> well and who is not.
> - some systems will have issues which cannot be remediated per se. By
> differential reporting, we can look at new stuff and the report would not
> be cluttered by old stuff we already knew about / ticketed.
>
> Best regards
> Joris
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Thijs Stuurman <Thijs.Stuurman@
> internedservices.nl> wrote:
>
> You can schedule the scans to repeat them.
>
>
>
> Personally I wasn’t happy with the built in scheduler and automated one
> myself using python talking to the gvm-tools API.
>
> (https://github.com/Thijssss/openvas_scheduler which might help you
> automate things yourself, gvm-tools also has example scripts:
> https://bitbucket.org/greenbone/gvm-tools)
>
>
>
> I am not going for differences really; any finding with a CVSS score of >
> 4 will trigger an alert which sends an email to our ticketing system.
>
> Once a month I start my scheduler which will start any job that hasn’t run
> for 3 weeks or so. (I could leave it running in a screen forever but I
> still supervise and time it all, when it is not running I got time to
> update scan systems)
>
>
>
> If you go to tasks and click on the Reports > Total number you can see an
> overview of all the reports and quickly see if things improved or not.
>
> There is a compare button (underneath Actions, next to ‘delete’ so be
> careful), click on two and you’ll get a comparison overview.
>
>
>
> Still, why care about past results; it’s the latest scan result that
> counts in my book.
>
>
>
> Thijs Stuurman
>
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>
> *Van:* Openvas-discuss [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Namens *Joris
> *Verzonden:* donderdag 7 december 2017 09:51
> *Aan:* [email protected]
> *Onderwerp:* [Openvas-discuss] Reporting on delta's between scans on same
> host
>
>
>
> Hello list,
>
>
>
> Using the scanner here and are pretty impressed with the results and the
> web GUI.
>
>
>
> Our next move is basically to identify differences between consecutive
> scans on hosts (was a vulnerability patched? was a new vulnerability
> introduced on the system?)
>
>
>
> Based on my understanding, the system does not support this natively but I
> can be wrong. How do others solve this issue? Do you build automation
> around it ?
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Joris
>
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