Tenable Blog

Tenable is excited to announce a new release of the Nessus user interface! This is a major update which provides several new features and enhancements, including a redesigned user interface to enhance scan scheduling, processing, and analysis, and policy creation wizards.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council announced at the European Community Meeting in Nice, France the first validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) solution. The P2PE application/solution validation programs were first introduced by the PCI SSC over two years ago, so while some might say “it’s about time a solution was validated” it at least appears that the P2PE validation program is quite challenging and complex. European Payment Services (EPS), being the first company to have a solution listed, should be commended.

Nessus 5.2.4 is available for download. This is a maintenance release which addresses two issues.

Jack Daniel and I presented the third webcast in the "Vulnerabilities Exposed" series - "BYOD - Bring Your Own Devastation - Taking On the Mobile Threat." View the webcast recording and responses to questions asked during the session.

Finding the pockets of your network that contain hidden systems or applications is an ongoing task for every IT security department. It seems no matter how well you know your network, there is frequently something that causes you to raise an eyebrow and investigate. There are a few contributing factors that lead to pockets of unmanaged systems and applications: