Hello, In the spirit of open source development we (Star Chamber) have released version 0.2 of the Sussen client for Nessus. We hope that this proves useful. We have been making frequent additions to CVS on our download site at sourceforge -- http://sussen.sourceforge.net and hope to keep improving it. The full press release is included here.
Darrin Nowakowski FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Toronto, ON) June 06, 2003 . Star Chamber Inc. is proud to announce the release of Sussen v0.2. Sussen is a client for the Nessus Security Scanner. It based on the GNOME 2.2 and attempts to take full advantage of the platform. Sussen is incredibly easy to use, you can perform a vulnerability assessment with just a few mouse clicks, making it a must have for current nessus users. Version 0.2 also provides easy to understand druids to help with common tasks. The report viewer has also been re-designed so you can get at the information you want quickly and easily. Using Sussen's policy manager, you can save various plugin sets for easy use. In this release we have provided policy files "All Plugins", "All But Dangerous Plugins", and the ever popular "SANS TOP 20" (partial). Source code and screen shots are available from http://sussen.sourceforge.net/. This development project is sponsored by Star Chamber Inc. The software, and it's source code are being released under the terms of the GNU Public License About Star Chamber Star Chamber is a full service Information Security company. Based in Toronto Canada, with a global client list, our consultants have helped a wide range of companies and organizations to secure their information assets. Our consulting staff is 100% CISSP certified with experience in the Financial, Government, Telecommunications and other industries. Star Chamber Services include Information Security Assessments, Information Forensic Services, Secure Media Disposal, Security Consulting and Security Software Development. For more information please visit www.starchamber.ca About GNOME (www.gnome.org) GNOME is a free software project that is developing a complete, easy to use desktop for Linux-based operating systems, BSD and a variety of other Unix and Unix-like operating systems. The GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. More than 500 computer developers, including over 100 full-time, paid developers, contribute their time and effort to the project. About Nessus (www.nessus.org) The Nessus project aims to provide to the Internet community a free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner. Nessus allows users to remotely audit a given network and determine whether anyone may break into it, or misuse it in some way. For media inquiries, please contact: Darrin Nowakowski Star Chamber, Inc. Tel: 416.318.7420
