Nessus 3.2.1 released

Nessus is the world’s most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world’s largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.

New features

  • New multi-criteria report filter in NessusClient. There is more on this later in the blog.
  • On Mac OS X, it is now possible to authenticate with NessusClient to a remote Nessus server via a SSL certificate
  • New NASL functions - bn_dec2raw(), bn_raw2dec(), bn_hex2raw(), bn_raw2hex(), rsa_public_encrypt(), rsa_private_encrypt() and rsa_private_decrypt()
  • New options in nessusd.conf : ’enable_listen_ipv4’ and ’enable_listen_ipv6’ let the user disable IPv4 and IPv6 bindings
  • Builds for Ubuntu Linux 8.04 and Fedora 9
  • Support for Windows 2000

Post scriptum

Compliance Mandates

  • Vulnerability Management :

    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

  • 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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