Nessus 3

Dominic White

 
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Nessus 3

Nessus 3.0.0 is out, there is a full announcement at Bleeding Snort and Nessus.org. Sounds like there are some great improvements, anyone want to pay for a direct plugin feed subscription for me?

Nessus 3 is a complete rewrite of the Nessus engine, designed for speed and efficency -- as a result Nessus 3 is on average twice as fast as Nessus 2 (with spikes as high as five times faster) and is less resource intensive.

The Nessus 3 major enhancements are the following :

  • New NASL3 engine
  • Improved plugin storage for faster startup time
  • Improved networking functions
  • New scanner architecture to be both efficient and robust
  • The Nessus daemon fetches the plugins automatically when registered (this can be disabled in nessusd.conf)
  • Improved error handling

Tuesday, December 13. 2005
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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Last modified on 2005-12-13 02:37
 

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