Tenable Blog

Tenable's research group has released several hundred new plugins for Nessus in the last few days. One of them in particular is very useful for Solaris environments.

Plugin #29217 enumerates all installed software packages on Solaris operating systems. It leverages SSH credentialed scanning to obtain these results.

Tenable Network Security has received certification for the Nessus vulnerability scanner and Security Center to perform Center for Internet Security configuration audits of the Windows XP operating system. This blog entry discusses the new audit policies, an upcoming webinar on how to use these polices and making use of these with the Nessus Client and Security Center.

Certified Audit Policies for XP Pro

One of the powerful features of Nessus is its ability to perform patch auditing for many different operating systems over many different protocols. Most Nessus users understand that Nessus supports UNIX audits with the Secure Shell protocol and that it can also log into Windows systems. This blog entry will discuss using Telnet as a method for Nessus to perform patch auditing.

Who is Still Using Telnet?

If you are a Nessus user, you are no doubt familiar with the process to subscribe your Nessus scanner to the Direct Feed or Registered Feed to automatically receive new vulnerability plugins produced by Tenable's research group.

Tenable Network Security's research group has released a new Nessus plugin which can make use of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to accurately detect Windows Vista, 2000 Server, 2003 Server and XP Professional. The Remote Desktop Protocol is also sometimes referred to as Terminal Services.