"A new direction for open source"
July 19, 2006Recently, Michael Arnone from Federal Computer Week wrote an article about various open source projects going closed source. The article mentioned Nessus, OpenBSD and Mozilla and had several quotes fr...
3D Tool Screenshots
July 19, 2006Tenable has been working on a 3D Visualization tool that works with the Security Center. We're almost out of BETA testing with it and the screen shots are something pretty neat to look at. The to...
Socialize with Tenable!
July 19, 2006In New York City? Tenable Network Security is sponsoring a free networking event hosted by (ISC)2 and The Institute for Applied Network Security. The event is July 19th at the Crowne Plaza Times Squar...
Security Center is an Information Security Mag HOT PICK
July 19, 2006I'm always really glad to see Tenable products independently reviewed and accurately reported on. Information Security magazine recently reviewed the Security Center and gave it really good marks in ...
Enhanced VMWare Detection
July 19, 2006Plugin #20094 attempts to guess if the target host is indeed a system run under VMWare. It does this by looking at the Ethernet address and checking to see if it is one allocated to VMWare "hard...
SCADA Network Monitoring
July 19, 2006Tenable has produced a set of plugins for our Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS) based on the publicly available SCADA IDS signatures from Digital Bond. This allows the PVS to discover which devices ...
SE Linux Log Support
July 19, 2006Security Enhanced Linux (commonly known as SE Linux) offers several methods to secure what the kernel and the applications can and can't do. This can help prevent successful buffer overflow attacks fr...
Detecting Network Change
July 19, 2006Tenable has recently added several TASL correlation rules which detect a variety of network changes. These rules automatically detect: Changes to servers such as new software and added patches C...
CentOS Patch Auditing
July 19, 2006Tenable is now tracking patch updates to the CentOS Linux operating system. The Nessus Direct and Registered feeds are now updated with host-based patch audits for CentOS. There are more than 200 audi...
Detecting when Credentials Fail
July 19, 2006If you are using Nessus to perform credentialed audits of UNIX or Windows systems, analyzing the results to determine if you had the correct passwords and SSH keys can be difficult. Nessus users can n...
Tenable User's Conference
July 19, 2006Tenable would like to thank everyone who came to see us at the User's Conference. In particular we'd like to thank our guest speakers including Johny Long, Richard Bejtlich from Tao Security, Russ Rog...
Tenable Blog
July 18, 2006Welcome to the official Tenable Network Security blog. We will be using this to communicate a variety of information including network security best practices, Nessus updates, vulnerability scanning t...