Nessus 3.0 Now Available for Linux and FreeBSD: Better Scanning Speed

Tenable Network Security, Inc., a leading developer of security management solutions and creator of the popular and award-winning Nessus vulnerability scanner, today announced the general availability of Nessus 3.0 for the Linux and FreeBSD platforms. Nessus 3.0 was developed in response to growing market demand from enterprises, government agencies and consultants for a commercially licensed version of Nessus. Nessus 3.0 users will now have access to a number of commercial support and training options from Tenable Network Security. Tenable Network Security will continue to manage, distribute and maintain the open source version, Nessus 2.x.

"Nessus 3.0 is a more robust version of the vulnerability scanner with better handling of concurrent host scanning. Its scan engine is faster than previous versions, achieving up to five times improvement when scanning Windows networks," said Renaud Deraison, Chief Research Officer, Tenable Network Security, co-founder and the primary author of the Nessus vulnerability scanner.

In addition to gaining dramatic improvements in performance, Tenable also provides an optional Direct Feed subscription service for Nessus 3.0 which provides immediate access to new vulnerability checks and entitles Nessus 3.0 users to commercial support from Tenable. The Tenable Plugins include support for a rating methodology called Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) that can be used to express the criticality of a discovered vulnerability or threat.

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