Tenable’s Nessus Named as SearchSecurity.com 2009 Reader’s Choice Award Winner

Tenable’s Nessus, in conjunction with Tenable’s Security Center and Passive Vulnerability Scanner, takes Silver for Best Vulnerability Management Product for 2009 

Tenable Network Security, Inc., the leader in Unified Security Monitoring and creator of the popular and award-winning Nessus vulnerability scanner, announces that Tenable’s enterprise class security and compliance management software in conjunction with Tenable’s Nessus vulnerability scanner won silver in Information Security™ magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards. 

The Information Security™ magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2009 Readers’ Choice Award winners “were selected based on extensive, in-depth discussions and interviews between the editors of Information Security ™ magazine and SearchSecurity.com and over 1,700 information security executives and managers, who were asked to assess and rate products deployed within their organizations from a listing of more than 380 products spanning 17 product categories. The judging panel then selected Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners within each product category.” 

As noted on SearchSecurity.com, “Nessus, offered by Tenable Network Security in conjunction with the company’s Security Center and Passive Scanner products, placed second this year. Readers were especially enthusiastic about the product's accuracy, as well as its ability to integrate with threat management or early warning systems. Other notable features include configuration auditing, asset profiling and high-speed discovery.” 

“We are very pleased to be recognized by the readers of Information Security Magazine (SearchSecurity.com) as the best vulnerability management software product on the market” said Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable. “We are proud that the readers identified and praised our product’s accuracy. We have invested and continue to invest significantly in research and development as evidenced by our product set’s ability to identify vulnerabilities in a wide variety of methods: active, passive, credentialed, non-credentialed and through log analysis.” 

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