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22nd June, 2009: Gartner Information Security Summit 2009

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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9th June, 2009: Tenable/451 Log Management Webinar

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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26th May, 2009: Nessus 4.0.1 released

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



20th May, 2009: Tenable Expands Capability for Enterprise Class Log Management and Forensics

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



9th April, 2009: Nessus 4.0.0 released

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



30th March, 2009: Detecting Conficker with Nessus

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



11th March, 2009: Tenable's CSO, Marcus Ranum, to Keynote Source Boston 2009

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



5th February, 2009: Tenable Releases Database Auditing Capability

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



14th January, 2009: Tenable Named Finalist in 2009 SC Awards Program

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



13th January, 2009: Executive Briefing Series - Winning at the Compliance Game

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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7th January, 2009: Tenable Announces Partnership with Immunity and DSquare

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



15th December, 2008: New Nessus PCI Video

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



26th November, 2008: Tenable CEO to serve as Panelist on Policy Compliance on Thought Leadership Roundtable

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



3rd November, 2008: Log Correlation Engine 3.0 Available

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



24th October, 2008: Tenable CEO to Keynote Rochester Security Summit 2008

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



24th October, 2008: Tenable CSO to Keynote Hack in the Box Conference 2008 Malaysia

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



24th October, 2008: Plugins available for MS08-067

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 #34477, which does not require any credential, which remotely determines if a Windows 2000, XP or 2003 host is vulnerable to the overflow.

  • 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



    21st July, 2008: Nessus 3.2.1.1 (Windows) released

    Nessus 3.2.1.1, an errata release for Windows, is now available.

    This version fixes the following Windows-specific bugs:

    - With some configurations, Nessus would fail to determine that remote hosts are up

    - When the same service runs on different ports, not every instance would be scanned

    - Nessus 3.2.1 would not be able to import Nessus 3.0.x reports
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    16th July, 2008: Tenable Releases Charitable and Training Organization Subscription Programs

    Tenable Network Security released plugin subscription programs designed for charitable organizations and training organizations. To learn more about qualifying for and how to apply for these programs, please read the following guides:

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    26th June, 2008: Free PatchDiff2 IDA Plugin

    Tenable Network Security has released PatchDiff2 for the IDA disassembler.

    PatchDiff2 is a high performance binary patch analysis tool developed and used by the Tenable Research Team when analyzing binary patches.

    More information can be found on the Tenable blog.


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    9th June, 2008: Top Layer and Tenable Network Security Partner to Provide Intelligent Defense-In-Depth Security

    Top Layer, a global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, and Tenable Network Security, the leader in unified security monitoring, today announced a joint partnership to provide customers with cross-network security awareness by correlating security event data between Top Layer's IPS 5500 intrusion prevention solutions and additional security devices across an organization as a part of a defense-in-depth strategy.   More Information



    30th May, 2008: Nessus 3.2.1 released

    Tenable Network Security, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of Nessus 3.2.1.

    This new version contains a new report filtering mechanism in the client, adds support for Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 and re-introduces support for Windows 2000, and fixes several bugs.

    Every Nessus 3.2.0 user is encouraged to update to this version. You can download Nessus 3.2.1 from here.

    A more detailed blog entry about the changes in 3.2.1 is available on the Tenable blog.    More Information



    30th May, 2008: Marcus Ranum, Tenable CSO, Will Address the SSTIC Conference

    On June 4, 5 and 6, Marcus Ranum will be keynoting the SYMPOSIUM DE LA SECURITE DES TECHNOLOGIES DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION in Rennes, France.   More Information



    14th May, 2008: Tenable updates plugin subscription model for Nessus Vulnerability Scanner

    Tenable Network Security Inc. today announced an update to its subscription model that will benefit home user and qualifying charities around the world.

    Please read the letter to the Nessus community here.

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    30th April, 2008: Tenable Releases Security Center 3.4

    Tenable Network Security, Inc. today announced it has released Security Center 3.4 for general availability. Tenable's Security Center provides continuous, asset-based security and compliance monitoring. It unifies the process of asset discovery, vulnerability detection, data leakage detection, event management and configuration auditing for small and large enterprises.   More Information



    21st April, 2008: Marcus Ranum, Tenable CSO, Will Address Mnemonic Risk Management and Information Security Conference 2008

    On April 23rd and 24th, Marcus Ranum will be speaking at the Mnemonic Risk Management and Information Security Conference 2008 which will be held at the Ulleval Business Class in Norway.   More Information



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