Rollout: Tenable's Nessus 3.0
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September 15, 2006
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 With recent modifications to Nessus 3.0, Tenable has added complete endpoint compliance auditing to its existing vulnerability scanning product, reducing the number of solutions you must buy.  Few vulnerability-scanning products support both vulnerability scanning and minimum-standards endpoint-compliance checks. Most administrators must use and maintain two separate products.
Nessus' endpoint-compliance functionality isn't always pretty, but it gets the job done well, and cheaply. Some tweaking is required for Windows hosts if they're not in a Windows domain. This product might not meet all needs without your adding on the much more expensive Security Center.
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Tenable generated a lot of attention with its move to a closed-source but still-free 3.0 version of Nessus. That action prepared Tenable for a new type of remote check to Nessus: endpoint compliance, which ensures machines are configured in accordance with an organization's local policies and best practices. This addition puts Nessus in the company of very few others--and introduces a fee-based version of Nessus.
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