Tenable Blog

Tenable Network Security's research group recently introduced support for credentialed patch auditing of SuSE Enterprise 9 and 10 for both the Server and Desktop editions. Plugins which support patch auditing of these operating systems have been available to Registered Feed, Direct Feed and Security Center users since late 2007.

The Nessus Client 3.0 introduced a new format for Nessus scan policies, targets and results. This is known as the ".nessus" format. This blog entry discusses the advantages of this new file type and includes links to recently published technical documentation about the format and layout of the file.

Unified Scan Targets, Policy and Results

I often get the chance to speak with our Security Center customers who perform active Nessus scans or monitor networks in realtime with the Passive Vulnerabiltiy Scanner (PVS). These customers generally have more than 5 Nessus scanners, 2-3 PVS sensors and need to watch and report on more than 5000 active hosts.

Tenable's research group has released several hundred new plugins for Nessus in the last few days. One of them in particular is very useful for Solaris environments.

Plugin #29217 enumerates all installed software packages on Solaris operating systems. It leverages SSH credentialed scanning to obtain these results.

Tenable Network Security has received certification for the Nessus vulnerability scanner and Security Center to perform Center for Internet Security configuration audits of the Windows XP operating system. This blog entry discusses the new audit policies, an upcoming webinar on how to use these polices and making use of these with the Nessus Client and Security Center.

Certified Audit Policies for XP Pro