Download Nessus 10.2.0 / 8.15.5

Nessus is a security scanner that can scan a network for known exploits and open services. Results can then be displayed in various reports to be displayed. The software can also integrated with other packages, such as CyberArk for credential management and emm solutions from Microsoft, Apple, BlackBerry, MobileIron and VMware. Nessus comes in three different flavors: the free-to-use Home edition, and the paid Professional and Manager editions. Tenable has released Nessus 10.2.0 and 8.15.5 with the following changes:

Nessus 10.2.0 Release Notes

New Features

• Added a new Scan Summary tab that highlights important scan data in Nessus Professional.
• You can now configure update plans for Nessus Agents linked to Nessus Manager.
• BYOL scanners can now add scan targets by Instance ID.
• Added details of plugin execution failures to audit trails.

Changed Functionality and Performance Enhancements

• Added more detailed logging for node scans.
• Improved compliance reporting performance by removing description data.
• Extraneous data in compliance descriptions is now disabled by default.
• Added a preference setting that limits the amount of data generated by compliance plugins.

Security Updates

• Updated Zlib to version 1.2.12 to address a medium level vulnerability.
• Updated libexpac to version 2.4.8 to address several security vulnerabilities.
• Removed Nessus version information from unauthenticated API calls.
• Updated jQuery UI to version 1.13.0.

Nessus 8.15.5 Release Notes

Security Updates

• Updated libexpac to version 2.4.8 to address several security vulnerabilities.