Download Nessus 8.8.0

Nessus is a security scanner that can scan a network for known exploits and open services. Results can then be in several reports to be displayed. The software can also integrated with other packages such as CyberArk for credential management and MDM software from Microsoft, Apple, MobileIron and AirWatch. Nessus comes in three different flavors: the free-to-use Home edition, and the paid Professional and Manager editions. Tenable has released Nessus 8.8.0 with the following changes:

New Features

The following are the new features included in Nessus 8.8.0:

• Red Hat 8 Support – Nessus now supports Red Hat 8 as a supported host operating system.
• Agent key update confirmation – A confirmation prompt now appears when a user attempts to update the Nessus Agent key.

Changed Functionality and Performance Enhancements

The following are changes to functionality included in Nessus 8.8.0:

• Log rotation max_files default change – The default value for number of log files retained when rotating logs has changed from 100 to 10. This change applies to backend.log and www_server.log files, and will cause the oldest files to be rotated off if the new maximum is exceeded. Customers can modify the number of log files retained by changing the setting in the log.json file.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where ping doesn’t work in a static route network environment 00792741
• Fixed an issue where some appliances were consuming their available disk space with logs by reducing the default log rotation Max_Files value to 10 00903832
• Fixed an intermittent issue where blackout windows were not enforced by Nessus Manager 00815692
• Fixed an intermittent issue where agent policies may have been missing a selected tag 00867327
• Fixed a presentation issue in the UI with very long folder names 00871572
• Fixed an issue where blackout windows were not enforced immediately after 00:00 00815692
• Fixed an issue where an agent unlinked from UI cannot relink from agent CLI
• Fixed an intermittent issue with heartbeats not properly timing out in the NASL recv () function 00759300