Nessus 5.2 a major release in the wild (enhanced post-scan analysis tools)

(source : nessus blog & data sheet)

Nessus® is the industry’s most widely-deployed vulnerability and configuration assessment product. Nessus features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery, patch management integration, and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Fueled by Nessus ProfessionalFeed®, a continuously-updated library with
more than 50,000 individual vulnerability and configuration checks, and supported by an expert vulnerability research team, Nessus delivers accuracy to the marketplace. Nessus scales to serve the largest organizations and is quick-and-easy to deploy.

Nessus Scanning Capabilities:
• Accurate, high-speed asset discovery
• Compliance auditing: FFIEC, FISMA, CyberScope Reporting Protocol, GLBA, HIPAA/HITECH,
NERC, PCI, SOX
• Configuration auditing: CERT, CIS, COBIT/ITIL, DISA STIGs, FDCC, IBM iSeries, ISO, NIST, NSA
• Patch auditing: Includes patch management integration with IBM® TEM for Patch
Management, Microsoft® SCCM and WSUS, Red Hat® Network Satellite Server, and
VMware® Go
• Control systems auditing: SCADA systems, devices, and applications
• Sensitive content auditing: PII (credit card numbers, SSNs) and intellectual property
• Mobile device auditing: Lists iOS, Android™, and Windows Phone 7 devices accessing the
network and detects mobile vulnerabilities
• Vulnerability scanning for:
–– Network devices: Juniper, Cisco, firewalls, printers, and more
–– Virtual hosts: VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere, vCenter
–– Operating systems: Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, BSD, Cisco iOS, IBM iSeries
–– Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Informix/DRDA, PostgreSQL
––Web applications: Web servers, web services, OWASP vulnerabilities
–– Compromise detection: Viruses, malware, backdoors, hosts communicating with botnetinfected
systems, web services linking to malicious content
• Credentialed scanning detects local vulnerabilities and conditions
• Uncredentialed network-based scanning finds new hosts and vulnerabilities
• Certified SCAP vulnerability scanner