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Tenable Network Security is pleased to announce the release of Nessus 4.2.0.

Nessus 4.2 features a brand new web-based user interface and other performance improvements.

You can download Nessus 4.2 at http://www.nessus.org/download/ and read more about it on Tenable's Blog


The detailed change log is below:

User interface:

- New web based interface to manage scan and their results
- Multi-user
- Scan results and policies are now stored on the server
- New "compare" function can show what's new since another scan
- Admin users can pause/stop scans of other users
- Automatically updated via the plugin feed


Reporting:

- New ".nessus" file format following most of what was discussed atb https://discussions.nessus.org/message/1239#1239
- Much easier to parse
- Description split into different labels (, , etc...)
- "" section contains information which can be extracted easily (MAC address, operating-system, etc....)
- New HTML export format. More exports will soon be available through the plugin feed
- When a service is identified against a given port, the port name is now set to this service name (instead of looking up /etc/services).


Plugins:

- All plugins have been converted to a new registration API splitting the different labels (synopsis, description, solution, etc... are split into different calls, which is needed for the new .nessus format)
- The SYN scanner is now much faster against a firewalled host with all ports closed

Engine:

- Many new NASL functions
- nasl -VVVV will now list the dependencies of a given script (even nbin)
- Default HTTP user-agent now set to IE8
- Experimental token-ring support for packet forgery
- OpenSSL upgraded to 0.9.8l on Windows
- Performance improvement (especially when used with SecurityCenter) and
slightly lower memory usage
- Support for more SSL ciphers when connecting to remote services while auditing

New platforms:

- Nessus 4.2 also provide builds for Fedora 12 (32 and 64 bits), Ubuntu 9.10 (32 and 64 bits) and Suse 10 Enterprise (64 bits)
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Tenable Network Security, Inc. today announces the release of Tenable’s Log Correlation Engine 3.4 for general availability. With this release, Tenable now offers enterprise customers file integrity monitoring, historic log processing and event alerting with programmed response capabilities in one fully integrated product offering.   More Information

SC Magazine reviews Nessus noting "Nessus plug-ins cover more vulnerabilities closer to the discovery of the vulnerability than any other tool of its type."   More Information

Tenable Network Security's CSO, Marcus Ranum, is profiled in SC Magazine for his pioneering work in firewall development and Intrusion Detection Systems.   More Information

Tenable Network Security's CEO, Ron Gula, is featured in SC Magazine as one the entrepreneurial visionaries who have launched successful IT security companies in the last 20 years.   More Information

Tenable Network Security, Inc. announces that leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Nessus Security Scanner was selected the winner in the Security Scanner category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards.   More Information

Tenable Network Security, Inc. is proud to announce that it ranked number 290 on Technology Fast 500, Deloitte LLP's ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America.   More Information

Tenable Network Security, Inc. announces that Tenable's enterprise class security and compliance management software in conjunction with Tenable's Nessus vulnerability scanner won silver in Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2009 Readers' Choice Awards.   More Information

Tenable Network Security, Inc. announces the Tenable Appliance to expand the deployment options for its enterprise class security and compliance management software and Nessus vulnerability scanner.   More Information

Tenable Network Security is proud to be a sponsor of the Gartner Information Security Summit in Washington, DC June 28 - July 1, 2009. The focus of this event is on helping you break through conventional thinking and position yourself for the future of Information Security - technically, organizationally, politically, economically and globally.

We are looking forward to meeting you at the event, and would like to invite you and your colleagues to Tenable Network Security on-site at Booth 47.
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Tenable CEO, Ron Gula and 451 Vice President Nick Selby will discuss the recent 451 study which concluded that log management was more valuable to organizations than correlation. The webinar will take place on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT.

The webinar will discuss the 451 research, Mr. Selby will answer questions from Mr. Gula and the webinar attendees and then Tenable will demonstrate how their Log Correlation Engine can meet the needs of organizations who want to perform both log management and event correlation.
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Tenable Network Security has released version 4.0.1 of the Nessus vulnerability scanner. This point release includes a variety of minor bug fixes as well as support for additional authentication schemes. All customers are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of the Nessus Server and NessusClient.

The list of improvements is available here.


You can download Nessus 4.0.1 from http://www.nessus.org/download/   More Information

Tenable Network Security, Inc. today announces the release of Security Center 3.4.4 and Log Correlation Engine 3.2 for general availability. With this release, Tenable now offers enterprise customers full log aggregation and search combined with sophisticated user tracking, anomaly detection and correlation in one fully integrated product offering.   More Information

Tenable Network Security is pleased to announce the release of Nessus 4.0.0.

Nessus 4 features major performance improvements, greater scalability and reduced memory usage.

Nessus 4 can be downloaded at http://www.nessus.org/download/

More information is available here.   More Information

Nessus plugin #36036 performs a network based check for Windows computers infected with a variant of the Conficker virus.    More Information

Tenable Network Security, Inc. announces that Marcus Ranum, Tenable's CSO, will be providing the closing keynote address for the Source Conference 2009 in Boston. In addition, Ron Gula, Tenable's CEO and CTO, and Carole Fennelly, Tenable's Director of Content, will provide presentations as part of the popular track sessions.   More Information

Tenable Network Security, Inc. today announces a new capability for Nessus users to audit the configuration of many different SQL databases. The new capability of Nessus includes support for auditing Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL and many others, as well as SQL audit policies based on the Center for Internet Security and the Defense Information Systems Agency 'STIGs.'   More Information

Tenable Network Security has been named a finalist in the 2009 SC Awards program for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security.   More Information

Tenable's CTO, Ron Gula, will discuss recent trends in regulations and compliance and how this impacts IT operations. The webinar will be Feb 3 at 1:00 PM EST.

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Tenable Network Security, Inc. today announces a new partnership with Immunity, Inc. and DSquare Security, LLC. The partnership allows new customers to procure the Nessus ProfessionalFeed, the award winning CANVAS penetration testing tool and cutting edge exploit content from Immunity at a very competitive price point.

The bundle is available for purchase from Immunity. Further information on ordering the bundle can be found on Immunity's website (http://www.immunityinc.com/products-bundle.shtml). Customers purchasing the bundle receive a full one year subscription to the Tenable ProfessionalFeed, CANVAS and exploit content from D2.   More Information

A new Nessus demo video is available that demonstrates PCI DSS auditing.    More Information

Ron Gula, co-founder and CEO of Tenable, will serve as an expert panelist on WhiteHatWorld's Policy Compliance Thought Leadership Roundtable. Other panelists include experts from Qualys and Symantec.   More Information

Tenable is proud to announce the release of the Log Correlation Engine version 3.0. This release has many new enhancements and features, plus some new functionality which will be made available with the upcoming release of Security Center 3.4.3. Please see the Tenable blog for more information about this release.   More Information

Ron Gula, co-founder and CEO of Tenable, will keynote the Rochester Security Summit 2008. Mr. Gula's presentation is titled "Winning the Compliance Game".   More Information

On October 27th, Marcus Ranum, Tenable's CSO, will be keynoting the opening of the Hack in the Box Security Conference 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.   More Information

On thursday, Microsoft released a critical patch (MS08-067) for a remotely exploitable flaw in Windows.

The Tenable research team released two plugins to check for this flaw :

Plugin #34476, which requires credentials, determines if the patch has properly been installed on the remote host by checking the version of the NetApi32.dll

Both plugins are available in the HomeFeed and ProfessionalFeed.

More details can be found in the blog entry we wrote about this.   More Information

21st October, 2008: Tenable CEO to Address Institute for Applied Network Security

Ron Gula, Chief Executive Officer for Tenable Network Security, Inc., will address the Institute for Applied Network Security at the Midwest Information Security Forum.   More Information

20th October, 2008: PCI-DSS Plugins For Nessus

Tenable's Research Group has released three new beta plugins to all ProfessionalFeed and Security Center users that automate the process of preparing a PCI-DSS audit.

More about these can be found on the Tenable Blog   More Information

25th September, 2008: Tenable releases Nessus Virtual Appliance

Tenable Network Security has released a virtual appliance for the Nessus 3 vulnerability scanner. The VMware appliance is available to ProfessionalFeed and Security Center customers.

The appliance image allows for rapid deployments and effortless management of Nessus 3 scanners in virtual environments. Users do not need to concern themselves with managing an operating system and can focus on managing their scanner configurations, operation and performance.

The VMware image can be downloaded on the customer support portal. More information about the appliance can be found on the Tenable blog.

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18th August, 2008: NessusClient 3.2.1.1 released for Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9

Today, Tenable released NessusClient 3.2.1.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9.

This new version fixes an incompatibility arising with KDE on these particular platforms.   More Information

1st August, 2008: Tenable Announces Channel Partners for Nessus ProfessionalFeed Subscription

Tenable Network Security, Inc. today announces Force 3 and Software House International (SHI) as Tenable's authorized channel partners for the Nessus ProfessionalFeed Subscription. More information on Tenable's partners can be found here.   More Information

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