Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year

["Renaud Deraison (lists)" <deraison-lists () nessus org>]

On May 22, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Fyodor wrote:
> > and qualifying
> > charitable organizations will get a free "Home Feed", which is the
> > same as our "Registered Feed" but without a seven day delay. We write
> > a plugin and it will be immediately available to every user. There is
> > nothing crippled about this ;
>
> Your letter says the HomeFeed only contains plugin updates "for home
> users", and your FAQ shows a chart showing categories of missing
> plugins in the home feed (such as SCADA and compliance checks).  If
> you only include the plugins you think are appropriate for home users,
> that is a crippled feed compared to your paid feed which includes all
> plugins.  You might be surprised by the sort of enterprise equipment
> some of us have on our home networks :).


In terms of contents, we try to keep the two feeds as close from each  
other as possible. The SCADA and Compliance/Contents Checks are two  
notable exceptions, and frankly I doubt home users would use them :

- The compliance/contents checks are used for regulatory purposes  
where you can prove to an auditor that every system on your network  
matches a security policy you defined. This requires time to describe  
your security policy into a format we call ".audit" files. More  
information here : http://www.nessus.org/documentation/index.php?doc=compliance

- As for the SCADA checks, I hope you'll show me around your personal  
power plant sometimes :)


For the rest, the home feed and professional feed contain the same  
plugins.

The chart you are referring to is available at :

http://www.nessus.org/documentation/index.php?doc=faq#anchor54

It currently talks about our current offering (Direct vs Registered  
Feed). When our policy change goes into effect on July 31st, the chart  
will be updated to remove the 7 days delay. (also note that we greatly  
improved the bandwidth for the registered feed, thus offering a good  
quality of service to every user).



Have a good day,

                                -- Renaud



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