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When scans are complete, Nessus can now send an email with scan results and remediation recommendations to the recipients of your choice. This can be done for individual scans or set up in conjunction with scan scheduling to monitor the discovery of critical vulnerabilities or other conditions and automatically deliver the findings to the appropriate people.

Tuning your Nessus scan policy can yield great results. Tenable has added a new Nessus plugin which will analyze the scan results for your environment and the scan settings that were used, and then suggest improvements for a better audit.

Keeping tabs on missing patches is one of the challenges faced by everyone responsible for managing systems. Regardless of platform, there are a plethora of patches to be applied. The new Nessus “Patch Report” plugin provides an actionable report that displays a list of consolidated patches that need to be applied to become fully patched.

For a field that loves statistics, computer security sure treats them casually. In order to get my humble BA in Psychology, I absorbed my share of course hours in statistics and testing methods, including a set of lectures based upon Darrell Huff's brilliant book, "How to Lie with Statistics" - which I highly recommend. It's fun easy reading satire - those lectures had the effect of making me hyper-skeptical about any large, round, number that's thrown my way.