Today Tenable, the company behind Nessus, announced changes to their licensing program that effects anyone using the Nessus vulnerability scanner. Nessus is one of the most widely used security tools in the industry; in large part because it’s free to download and use for individuals. One downer has been that the vulnerability signature feed for the free version is always a week behind the commercial version. The new license does away with the delay, but changes who can use the free version.
Ron joins Martin and myself to explain the new licensing and talk about the impact to the security community.
NSP Microcast: Ron Gula on the changes to the Nessus licensing model
May 14th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
[...] and I got a chance to talk to Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable Network Security about the changes that were made today the the changes in the Nessus licensing model. This is a [...]
May 14th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
[...] If you didn’t catch the news today, Tenable is changing the Nessus license and enabling the real-time signature/plugin feed for the free version. martin and I managed to snag Ron Gula for a short interview we posted over at NetSecPodcast.com. [...]