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Nessus 3.0 discussed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the profits-and-the-bottom-line dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nessus is one of the world's most popular (open source) vulnerability scanners, used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world's largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications. With the recent news of going closed source Ron Gula took a few minutes to talk to SecurityFocus. From the article: 'I speak to a lot of different open source project managers and they say similar stuff -- it's mostly free users and not really code contributors.' What would happen now? Nessus 3 will provide an average 5x speed improvement compared to the old, but open source, 2.x version, and a lot of new features."

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  1. More info links by lampiaio · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wikipedia entry
    Official Website

    sorry, bad karma makes people do this kind of post...
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  2. What do you mean, "Funny"?? by lampiaio · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Funny" gives me no karma points! Get those informatives moving!

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  3. Re:I got some interesting results on my PC by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Switch to Linux - I assume that was the last output Nessus put up on the screen before the PC left...

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