Nessus 3.0 discussed
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.“