1 Nessus is a security scanner. That is, it's a program which will scan a
2 given network and will seek for vulnerabilities which could be exploited
3 by some remote intruder.
5 The Nessus Project was originally started by Renaud Deraison
6 (deraison@worldnet.fr). Many people contributed in many ways to the
7 project, and the Nessus core team is now made up of Alexis de Bernis
8 (alexisb@mygale.org), who is the Java specialist, Noam Rathaus
9 (dolittle@isrealmail.com) who is in charge of the Nessus client for
10 Windows, and Renaud Deraison who is still here and who is the project
13 WWW: http://www.nessus.org/