Re: Vulnerability vs. Pen test

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

Hi James,

You might be interested in 'Nessus Network Auditing' by Carey,
Criscuolo, and Petruzzi (ISBN 978-1-59749-208-9) in addition to
Ulises' references.

Jeff

On 4/22/09, jlay () slave-tothe-box net <jlay () slave-tothe-box net> wrote:
> So part of PCI DSS requirements are for a quarterly vulnerability
>  assessment, and a yearly pentest.  My question is:  is Nessus considered
>  just a vulnerability scanning app?  Thanks.
>
>  James
>
> [SNIP]

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