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Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 19:17:36 -0700
I normally don't post Nessus news to nmap-dev, but this affects Nmap somewhat. There is a new link on Nessus.Org to an "Important message for our Nessus users": http://www.nessus.org/products/directfeed/change.php And FAQ at : http://www.nessus.org/documentation/index.php?doc=feed-faq The letter says that they are removing the free (but registration and EULA acceptance required) "registered feed". Users (except some "personal non-commercial" users who qualify for a crippled "Home Feed") now have to pay $1200/year to use Nessus. Now don't go thinking this is just a crass attempt to milk more money from Nessus users! On the contrary, Tenable explains in the letter that they are only removing the free version "to better reflect the needs [of] our community". There was already a big vacuum in the open source vulnerability scanner space after Nessus closed their source in '05, and now that vacuum expands to free vulnerability scanners in general. It is time the Nmap project step up to the plate and redouble our efforts with the Nmap Scripting Engine! We already have more than 40 scripts, and we have two talented full-time GSoC NSE coders this Summer (Patrick Donnelly and Philip Pickering). I had a two hour IRC meeting with them (and Diman) today. I'm not suggesting that Nmap become a vulnerability scanner as comprehensive as Nessus, but I do believe that we can serve an important part of that market just by concentrating on network discovery and remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. Nessus may have 20,000 plugins, but many of them are ancient or are local filesystem checks for a patch issued by a specific distribution. Perhaps 90% of the value in Nessus is in the top few hundred plugins. While I'm a bit disappointed by this Nessus change, I respect that it is Tenable's choice to make. However, the Nmap Project is not following suit. We believe that we can best reflect the needs of our community by staying free! Cheers, Fyodor _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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