Nessus 3.2 beta available for testing

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In: Nessus , Vulnerability Scanner

16 April 2007

Nessus 3.1.2, the first public BETA of what will become Nessus 3.2, has been released for the Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems.

There are many new features available including:

  • Experimental IPv6 support
  • Improved bandwidth throttling
  • Extended nessusd.rules functionality to add support for ports and plugins
  • New command ’nessuscmd’ which lets you do a quick command-line scan
  • Improved NASL engine including an API to write custom WMI checks
  • Easy-update : Nessus can now update its own engine by doing /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-update

Post scriptum

Compliance Mandates

  • Vulnerability Scanner :

    PCI DSS 11.2, 6.6, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16CFR Part 314.4(c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5, SI-2, ISO 27001-27002 12.6, 15.2.2


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