Is there a good vulnerability scanner free for home use? Needs to check Mac, Windows, Windows Server, Proxmox, OpnSense, Linux, IOs, Andeoid and IpadOS for vulnerabilities and suggestions how to fix or make Firewall rules to secure. I have a M365 Fam account and Defender but i‘m not shure if this is possible like it is with Sentinel and Arc.

With a few dozen end points, VMs, containers, NAS, servers, various OSes etc... what is everyone using for Vuln Scanning or security tools for the home network? I mean I have OPNSense set to pretty restrictive and I block adds but is there something I can use to scan for known vulnerabilities? I would love to run Tenable or Qualys but I can't afford those licenses, is there an open source product that I can self host that is good enough?

Is there a service, hopefully free, that will try to break into your home network from the Internet? At least detect open ports, for example.

I imagine one way is to get a free account on AWS try to hack your network but that's work I 'd like to avoid

What you guys use to scan your lab vulnerability? I know of openvas not sure if that still open-sourced. Diffrent alternatives.

I run my own HomeLab and am looking for a vulnerability scanning tool like nessus or openvas. Aim is obviously for it to be open source and free but main gain is to also have the ability for enterprise detections. Openvas for example has a community feed and an enterprise feed and the community edition doesn't not have certain products that are considered enterprise in their scans. I really do not wanna have to pay for a scanner. Anything out there I could put together or a solution I could build to facilitate this task?

How many of you are security scanning your home networks?

We use Nessus at work, as well as some other tooling. I recently discovered that they provide a free version for home use. It's really worth checking out and can be a real eye-opener.

To get started:

• Register for a home-use activation code: https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus-home

• Download and install Nessus: https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/select-your-operating-system#download

• Create a new 'Basic Network Scan'.

• Give it a name

• Add your targets, e.g. 192.168.0.0/24, 172.16.0.0/24 etc

• Save, and then launch the scan.

The Nessus Home information page says that the number of scanned IPs is limited but it doesn't appear to be in practice.

There are other tools around that have similar functionality, including OpenVAS which is free and open source.

Scan your networks with your preferred tool(s) and post here if you need help with resolving any discovered vulnerabilities.

So I am basically looking for a practical guide for a pentest/vulnerability assesment on house with 3rd party domotic systems (such as KNX), own self-hosted server & stuff (QNAP NAS, Plex), and own home automation server (HomeAssistant) with remote access.

At the end, I should be more aware of what the security holes are and what I should try and secure and how. With the results I'll be going to the 3rd party domotic system administrator and be adjusting my own systems as well. I.e., might result in using a VPN for remote access.

Basically, the security test should reveal what can be improved, how, and where it makes sense keeping user comfort (including non-tech users) and security both in mind.

Any practical guides on how to accomplish this?

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so, I'm looking to get some insight into my network, and network device security issues, not looking to try and learn pen-testing, not yet, but I'm curious what free security and vulnerability testing software you guys run in your labs, I'm looking to find possible security problems with my network and network devices, anything from issues with my pfsense firewall, to problems on my windows clients on my lan, and anything in between, debian/*nix or otherwise, and figured I'd ask for suggestions.

I need these tools to be free, because I am currently unemployed during these times, I am not against compiling software suites if I can find guides on how to compile them, and I do currently have my esxi server running as well, so I'm more than able to spin up containers or virtual machines as needed for these as well.

heck, if anyone could even suggest some good reads for someone with 0 skills in this who is just trying to look into this and learn from boredom during this pandemic, that's fine with me as well.

it does not nessesarily need to be security testing specific either, I'd be more than happy to read up on ways to boost my internet privacy with pfsense, squid, pfblockerng, and anything else that would be a useful addition or alteration to configs, I'm just going insane from boredom because everything else I'd usually do to satisfy my boredom has been done to death over the time in isolation here at home.

I was wondering what kind of software people here use to see weakpoints in there homelab network.