Nessus is a proprietary vulnerability scanner developed by Tenable, Inc.
History
In 1998 Renaud Deraison created The Nessus Project as a free remote security scanner. On October 5 2005, with the release of Nessus 3, the project changed from the GNU General Public License to a proprietary license.
The Nessus 2 engine and some of the plugins are still using the GNU General Public License, leading to forks based on Nessus like OpenVAS and Greenbone Sustainable Resilience.
See also
- Metasploit Project
- OpenVAS
- Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN)
- SAINT (software)
- Snort (software)
- Wireshark
References
External links
- Nessus 2.2.11 files and source code
- Nessus source code up to 2.2.9