Nessus
Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. It is plugin-based and performs over 20,000 security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, and suggests a solution for each finding.
| Tags | Security |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 14 Mar 2008 05:23
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 13 Mar 2008 07:47
Changes: IPv6 is supported. Control of network bandwidth usage during scanning was improved. Granular access control rules were implemented to limit users to specific ports and audits. The Nessus Server capability was extended to query remote Windows systems with WMI.
- 30 Oct 2006 14:22
Changes: Plugins are faster to process. This release is more reliable when working with a broken db file, and has an improved port scanner.
- 08 Mar 2006 22:21
Changes: Several fixes were backported from the development release.
- 08 Mar 2006 13:08
Changes: Performance improvements, reduced memory usage, many bugfixes, new NASL functions, and improved port scanner speed.
- All comments
Recent commentsIt's not open-source anymore!
Starting version 3.0 it's going to be free but not open-source!