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 Is it supposed to limit technical support hassels by limiting the number of outdated binaries in the wild?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 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
