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September 16, 2025

No More Blind Spots: Achieving Complete SDLC Visibility in a Multi-Cloud World

Struggling with a messy, multi-cloud environment? Learn how Tenable’s unified cloud security approach helps you eliminate dangerous blind spots, attain complete visibility and control, and secure your assets from the first line of code to full production.

July 23, 2017

Cyber Exposure: The Next Frontier for Security

The stakes have never been higher when it comes to cybersecurity. Global cyber attacks such as the recent WannaCry ransomware attack is a sobering reminder that cybersecurity is the existential threat of this generation. A new report from Lloyd’s of London estimates a serious cyber attack could…


April 10, 2017

Hunting Linux Malware with YARA

Tenable recently released two new YARA plugins to complement the already existing Windows YARA plugin. The new plugins are YARA Memory Scan (Linux) and YARA File Scan (Linux) (Solaris). The plugins bring YARA functionality to Linux and Solaris hosts. This blog discusses a couple of scenarios in…


April 3, 2017

Getting Started with Nessus on Kali Linux

Kali Linux, a Linux distribution designed specifically for penetration testing, comes prepackaged with many pen test tools. Nessus® provides a penetration tester with a wealth of capabilities that will assist in the engagement, such as:Identifying local and remote vulnerabilitiesConfiguration and…


February 7, 2017

Outstanding Patch Tracking Dashboard

Editor's note: Our dashboards have been updated in the time since this blog was originally published. Please see this page for the latest guidance on Outstanding Remediation Tracking. The IT Operations teams in most organizations run in monthly cycles from “Patch Tuesday” to “Patch Tuesday.” The…


July 20, 2016

Threat Hunting with YARA and Nessus

In Nessus 6.7, file system scanning functionality was introduced that could look for specific file hashes of files on disk. This was in addition to the running process detection which has been supported for quite some time. Now, as part of the Nessus 6.8 release, we’ve introduced YARA to our…


July 10, 2014

Installing and Using Nessus on Kali Linux

Note: These 2014 instructions are for installing Nessus version 5 on Kali Linux. Please see the newer blog, Getting Started with Nessus on Kali Linux, for information on installing Nessus version 6 and higher on Kali Linux 2016. Note:  Nessus Cloud is now a part of Tenable.io…


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