0% Screenshot Comments no rating John Make SAINT GREAT AGAIN! This was a greate tool for it's age. ★★★★ John Andrews Used to use SAINT all the time however times have changed but for it's time it was a great tool. No rating BALAJI G This tool is still available?!!
Like Nessus, it used to be free and open source but is now a commercial product. SAINT runs on Linux and Mac OS X. In fact, SAINT is one of the few scanner vendors that. For downloads and more information, visit the SAINT homepage. Even if a network has no Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD hosts at all, SAINT can be run.
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I'm trying to get this tool but I didnt get it ★★★★★ The new version of SAINT is SAINT 8. Just to add SAINT enterprise is perfect for multi tenant windows network architecture - no rating Unlike Nexpose, and QualysGuard, SAINT runs on Linux and Mac OS X. This is a misleading comment. Nexpose runs on Ubuntu, RHEL and Windows. Their appliance version is currently using Ubuntu 12.04, so I am not sure why this was said. The Qualys appliance is also using a linux OS. ★★★ It was a nice tool derived from SATAN (like also SARA), I like it but I think NEssus and OpenVAS are better.
No rating The summary of SAINT makes the curious statement that 'SAINT is one of the few scanner vendors that don't support MS Windows at all'. I'd like to contribute a clarification to that: SAINT certainly does scan for Windows vulnerabilities, and in addition to the regular addition of MS Windows vulnerability checks, a SAINT update is generally available each month 24 to 36 hours after Microsoft releases its 'Patch Tuesday' bulletins. Perhaps the original statement was observing that the SAINT scanner itself doesn't come in a native-Windows version. In practice, that's rarely a limitation.
Even if a network has no Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD hosts at all, SAINT can be run from a bootable USB memory stick or as a virtual machine within an MS Windows host. Folks who think of themselves as running 'an all-Windows shop' are using SAINT all the time. Moderator note: We've updated the description text to clarify that we mean SAINT doesn't run on Windows. Cheers. no rating Update: The latest version of SAINT is 7.11.4, released 2011 December 16.
Maintenance versions including the latest vulnerability checks are generally released twice a week, while new feature versions are released approximately every two months. As one of the SAINT developers, I'm not including a star-rating.:) Your comment Along with your rating, you can use the comment form to post a review, tutorial, tips and tricks, or anything else others will find useful. If you develop this software (or work for the company), please don't rate it.
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Commercial; see text Current Version: 4.2.2 (April 16, 2010) The 'Nessus' Project was started by Renaud Deraison in 1998 to provide to the internet community a free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner. Nessus is currently rated among the top products of its type throughout the security industry and is endorsed by professional information security organizations such as the SANS Institute. It is estimated that the Nessus scanner is used by 75,000 organizations world-wide. Features include:. Up-to-date security vulnerability database - Nessus mostly focuses on the developement of security checks for recent security holes. Its security checks database is updated on a daily basis, and all the newest security checks are available here and can be retrieved with the command nessus-update-plugins.
An RSS feed of all the newest security checks allows you to monitor which plugins are added and when. Remote AND local security - Traditional network security scanners tend to focus on the services listening on the network - and only on these. Now that viruses and worms are propagating thanks to flaws in mail clients or web browsers, this conception of security is getting outdated. Nessus has the ability to detect not only the remote flaws of the hosts on your network, but their local flaws and missing patches as well - whether they are running Windows, Mac OS X or a Unix-like system. Extremely scalable - Nessus has been built so that it can easily scale down to a single CPU computer with low memory to a quad-CPUs monster with gigabytes of RAM.
The more power you give to Nessus, the quicker it will scan your network. Plug-ins - Each security test is written as an external plugin, written in NASL (see below). This means that updating Nessus does not involve downloading untrusted binaries from the internet. Each NASL plugin can be read and modified, to better understand the results of a Nessus report. NASL - The Nessus Security Scanner includes NASL (Nessus Attack Scripting Language), a language designed to write security test easily and quickly. NASL plugins run in a contained environment on top of a virtual machine, thus making Nessus an extremely secure scanner.
Nessus for Mac OS X is not just a port of the Unix server to the Mac environment; it also bundles a native interface to manage the server and the client. The Mac OS X Nessus Client sports the following features:. Session-based - A 'session' is a set of targets, policies and results. A session may contain multiple scan results.
File-based - Each session is stored as a unique file on disk. This file can then be easily moved around to another host by email, ftp, etc.
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