Nessus 5.2 Released
product. Nessus features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive
data discovery, patch management integration, and vulnerability analysis of your security
posture. Fueled by Nessus ProfessionalFeed®, a continuously-updated library with
more than 50,000 individual vulnerability and configuration checks, and supported by an expert
vulnerability research team, Nessus delivers accuracy to the marketplace. Nessus scales to
serve the largest organizations and is quick-and-easy to deploy.
Nessus Scanning Capabilities:
• Accurate, high-speed asset discovery
• Compliance auditing: FFIEC, FISMA, CyberScope Reporting Protocol, GLBA,HIPAA/HITECH,
NERC, PCI, SOX
• Configuration auditing: CERT, CIS, COBIT/ITIL, DISA STIGs, FDCC, IBM iSeries, ISO, NIST,
NSA
• Patch auditing: Includes patch management integration with IBM® TEM for Patch
Management, Microsoft® SCCM and WSUS, Red Hat® Network Satellite Server, and
VMware® Go
• Control systems auditing: SCADA systems, devices, and applications
• Sensitive content auditing: PII (credit card numbers, SSNs) and intellectual property
• Mobile device auditing: Lists iOS, Android™, and Windows Phone 7 devices accessing the
network and detects mobile vulnerabilities
• Vulnerability scanning for:
–– Network devices: Juniper, Cisco, firewalls, printers, and more
–– Virtual hosts: VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere, vCenter
–– Operating systems: Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, BSD, Cisco iOS, IBM iSeries
–– Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Informix/DRDA, PostgreSQL
––Web applications: Web servers, web services, OWASP vulnerabilities
–– Compromise detection: Viruses, malware, backdoors, hosts communicating with
botnetinfected
systems, web services linking to malicious content
• Credentialed scanning detects local vulnerabilities and conditions
• Uncredentialed network-based scanning finds new hosts and vulnerabilities
• Certified SCAP vulnerability scanner
Tenable has announced a new release of the Nessus vulnerability scanner! This is a major release (moving from 5.0.3 to 5.2.0) which provides several new features and enhancements, including:
- IPv6 is now supported on all platforms (including Windows)
- Nessus server support for Windows 8 and Windows 2012
- Add attachments within scan result reports
- Mac OS X preference pane
- Digitally-signed Nessus RPM packages for supporting distributions
- Smaller memory footprint and reduced disk space usage
- Faster, more responsive web interface (uses less bandwidth)
- No longer need to visit the Tenable website for an activation code!
Getting Nessus 5.2
New users may download and evaluate Nessus free of charge by visiting the Nessus home page. Current customers can download 5.2 from the Tenable Support Portal. Detailed instructions and notes on upgrading are located in the Nessus 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide.
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