Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release

Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release
Federico Biancuzzi, 2005-11-24

SecurityFocus interviews Ron Gula to get a glimpse of Tenable's upcoming free (but closed-source) Nessus 3 vulnerability scanner. The discussion looks at license changes, community involvement, daemon security, new features, GPL open-source versus free, NASL, and more.

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Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-25
Anonymous (4 replies)

Re: Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-26
Ron Gula

Re: Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-27
Tsume

Re: Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-27
Anonymous

Tenable discusses loss of free software community 2005-11-26
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: Tenable discusses loss of free software community 2005-11-30
kRinSH

People tried to contribute - but you rejected them. 2005-11-27
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: People tried to contribute - but you rejected them. 2005-11-28
Ron Gula

Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-28
Anonymous

Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-29
Anonymous

OS Support (Was "Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release") 2005-11-30
Richard Johnson

Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-30
Anonymous

Start off a project with an innovative idea identifying niche in opensource environment. Get heavily involved make it a success (major contributions from the contributor base). When you'v had it and have opportunities by money-paying customers. Close it all, all contributors go to hell. Keep a lame ass version out for free and continue making money with those who pay.

Why is there a delayed feed free and non-delayed fee for money? If intentions are not strongly money-oriented and just to respond to user-base requirements?

I am a SOX Consultant, and nowhere SOX requires you not to use free code. As long as it is supportable, which many opensource consulting firms already do provide support services (Tenable could be one of them, or the best of them for nessus perhaps). Why then hide behind regulatory requirements?

Looks like Ron doesnt even know about SOX, FISMA, HIPAA, GLBA, etc.

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