Nessus
27 February 2012
Nessus is a remote security scanning tool.
It is designed to scan your computer for weaknesses which could be used to break into the computer.
Nessus has such advantages as:
- updated database
- high-speed discovery
- configuration auditing
- patch management integration
- vulnerability analysis of security
- efficiency
- communication with all parts of organization.
Also it provides a scripting language for writing tests specific to the system.