Nessus (software)

Template:Short description Template:Infobox software Nessus is a proprietary vulnerability scanner developed by Tenable, Inc.

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>Template:Cite web</ref> and Greenbone Sustainable Resilience.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• Metasploit Project
• OpenVAS
• Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN)
• SAINT (software)
• Snort (software)
• Wireshark

External links

• Template:Official website
• Nessus 2.2.11 files and source code
• Nessus source code up to 2.2.9

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