![]() ![]() While they share a common history, and some similarities remain, there are significant differences in their coverage. Since 2008 it is Greenbone Networks who develop and drive forward OpenVAS providing the feed of checks. Nessus was forked in 2005 to keep an open-source version alive, and in 2006 one of these forks was rebranded to OpenVAS. Nessus and OpenVAS started as the open-source Nessus Project back in 1998 by Renaud Deraison and in 2005 Tenable (co-founded by Renaud) changed the Nessus version 3 licence model to closed-source, looking to improve the solution by dedicating time and resources, and create a professional commercial product. Perhaps because they’re the most pervasive, or maybe because they have a shared history. ![]() Two that are most frequently compared are Tenable’s Nessus and Greenbone’s OpenVAS. ![]()
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