Security Center

Tenable Network Security Inc.

http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/sc/

If you have a large network, the Security Center can be used to place multiple Nessus scanners throughout your infrastructure. Using multiple scanners decreases your scan time, but also has several other advantages.

There is actually less impact to your network with more scanners. The closer you can place a scanner to their targets, the less port scans, vulnerability probes and sessions in general that your infrastructure has to carry.

With multiple scanners, the Security Center can organize these into groups called "zones". A zone can be created such that scans can be conducted from outside a logical network. For example, a zone could be created which simulated Internet attackers. Launching scans from within those zones can give you the same view your adversaries will have. Multiple scanners can be placed inside a zone for distributed scanning as well as load-balancing of scan jobs.

The more scanners you have throughout your network, the more accurate your topology discovery will be. When scanning from different vantage points, each scanner will be able to send its discovered routes, reachable systems and open ports to the Security Center where all of this data can be consumed and visualized in a 3D network model.

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Information Updated: 25 Oct 2007

Nessus Client

Agent: Red Hat Enterprise Server, Red Hat Fedora Core, SuSE Linux, Debian, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X

Tenable Network Security

 http://www.nessus.org/nessus/

The Nessus™ vulnerability scanner, is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks.

When Nessus is managed with Tenable's Security Center, an enterprise can perform full life-cycle vulnerability and configuration management. Organizations can communicate recommendations to the responsible parties, track remediations, and verify security patches and required configurations.

Nessus is supported by a world renowned research team and has the largest vulnerability knowledge base, making it suitable for even the most complex environments.

Information Updated: 25 Oct 2007

IP360

nCircle

http://www.ncircle.com/index.php?s=products_ip360

Delivered via hardened, non-Windows appliances and designed for scalability and ease of management, IP360 is ideal for large, globally-distributed networks

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Information Updated: 25 Oct 2005

Retina

Appliance

eEye Digital Security

http://www.eeye.com/html/products/retina/features/index.html

Retina can scan every machine on your network, including a variety of operating system platforms (e.g. Windows, Unix, Linux), networked devices (e.g. firewalls, routers, etc.), databases and third-party or custom applications, all in record time. After scanning, Retina delivers a comprehensive report that details all vulnerabilities and appropriate corrective actions and fixes.

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Information Updated: 05 Mar 2003