Re: Vulnerability scan systems

["Penn, Blake" <pennb () UWW EDU>]

We are using GFI Languard and nessus together.  Languard mostly for the
workstations and nessus for the servers/critical infrastructure.

Note that version 7 of Languard and version 3 of nessus have some very
significant improvements over the previous versions (features in the case of
Languard, and performance in the case of nessus).  We have nessus 3 running
on FreeBSD and it is just plain FAST!

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Blake Penn, CISSP
Information Security Officer
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
(p) 262-472-5513 (f) 262-472-1285
e-mail: pennb () uww edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Chad McDonald [mailto:chad.mcdonald () GCSU EDU]
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:10 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Vulnerability scan systems

Bret R Blackman wrote:

> We are currently evaluating different products (Qualys, Foundstone,
> Nessus, etc) for performing vulnerability scans on our critical
> systems.  What are other Universities using?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bret R. Blackman
> University of Nebraska at Omaha
> Director of Administrative Information Services Information Technology
> Services, EAB 110 bblackma () mail unomaha edu

We have used GFI Languard in the past but switched to Nessus about 2 years
ago.

Chad McDonald, CISSP
Chief Information Security Officer
Georgia College & State University

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