Nessus is a proprietary

vulnerability scanner A vulnerability scanner is a computer program designed to assess computers, networks or applications for known weaknesses. These scanners are used to discover the weaknesses of a given system. They are utilized in the identification and detecti ...

developed by

Tenable, Inc. Tenable, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Columbia, Maryland. It is known as the creator of the vulnerability scanning software Nessus. History Tenable was founded in 2002 as Tenable Network Security, Inc. The original co-founders of ...

History

In 1998 Renaud Deraison created ''The Nessus Project'' as a free remote security scanner. On October 5 2005, with the release of Nessus 3, the project changed from the GNU Public License to a

proprietary license Proprietary software is software that is deemed within the free and open-source software to be non-free because its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner exercises a legal monopoly afforded by modern copyright and inte ...

. The Nessus 2 engine and some of the plugins are still using the GNU Public License, leading to forks based on Nessus like

OpenVAS OpenVAS (''Open Vulnerability Assessment System'', originally known as ''GNessUs'') is the scanner component of Greenbone Vulnerability Manager (GVM), a software framework of several services and tools offering vulnerability scanning and vulnerab ...

and Greenbone Sustainable Resilience.

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Nessus 2.2.11 files and source code

Nessus source code
up to 2.2.9 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nessus (Software) Pentesting software toolkits Network analyzers Linux security software Formerly free software

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