RE: Alternatives to Nessus, License question

> I also agree here - who cares where you get the executables, as long as
> you do the registration through the Nessus web site?  This just doesn't
> make much sense to me.  Is it supposed to limit technical support
> hassels by limiting the number of outdated binaries in the wild?  Even
> if someone made an appliance, you'd still have to register on the Nessus
> web site, right?

This is the core issue. Tenable does not grant the right for people to
bundle the plugin feed with their products. I can buy symantec anti-virus
for $39/year, but that does not give me the right to bundle it and resell
it in my own security package. Just because we sell direct feeds and have
registered feeds available to the public, doesn't give them the right to
re-sell it as their own product or their own content.

This may seem like a fine line here, but to Tenable there is a big
problem when someone puts Nessus and the Tenable plugins on an appliance
and calls it the 'Scanner Pro 9000'. (I made that up BTW) Or even more
interesting are larger companies who are including Nessus in their
router, switch, authentication, ids, sim, .etc system.

Tenable does not have any formal agreements with any product vendors who
use Nessus in their solutions.

Ron Gula, CTO
Tenable Network Security





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