Nessus (software)
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History
In 1998 Renaud Deraison created The Nessus Project as a free remote security scanner.<ref name=NNA>Template:Cite book</ref> On October 5 2005, with the release of Nessus 3, the project changed from the GNU General Public License to a proprietary license.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The Nessus 2 engine and some of the plugins are still using the GNU General Public License, leading to forks based on Nessus like OpenVASTemplate:R<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Greenbone Sustainable Resilience.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See also
- Metasploit Project
- OpenVAS
- Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN)
- SAINT (software)
- Snort (software)
- Wireshark