New Nessus Configuration Auditing Features for Windows Servers
March 27, 2007Tenable has added several new types of configuration and security audits that can be performed by Nessus 3 against Windows servers. This blog post explains the new items. New Auditing Options There ...
Detecting Change -- Part II
March 13, 2007Tenable has previously bloged about how change can be detected through log analysis. Network change can be detected many other ways, including scanning and passive network monitoring. This blog entry ...
Enhanced Windows Compliance Auditing
February 24, 2007The Nessus 3 Direct Feed was updated today with enhanced functionality for Windows compliance checks. This blog entry discusses the new features and has example .audit text to illustrate them, includi...
Security Center 3.2 Report Templates
January 3, 2007Note: Tenable SecurityCenter is now Tenable.sc. To learn more about this application and its latest capabilities, visit the Tenable.sc web page. One of the new features of Security Center 3.2 i...
Security Center 3.2 Released
January 2, 2007Note: Tenable SecurityCenter is now Tenable.sc. To learn more about this application and its latest capabilities, visit the Tenable.sc web page. Tenable has released version 3.2 of the Security...
Creating "Gold Build" Audit Policies
September 13, 2006Security Center users and the Direct Feed subscribers have the ability to audit the host-based configuration of their UNIX and Windows servers. Tenable has produced several audit polices based on our ...
3D Tool Video
July 28, 2006Tenable has made the "3D Tool" for the Security Center available. A web-based video of it can be viewed here. The video shows a three dimensional topology graph of some different networks, a...
Tenable and Reconnex
July 24, 2006Tenable's Log Correlation Engine (LCE) can accept events from the Reconnex iGuard. If you are not familiar with products like the iGuard, it is a sophisticated network traffic analyzer that can look f...
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 ...
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...