Tenable Network Security Sets the Bar for Vulnerability Identification; Enterprises, Government Agencies, and Consultants Benefit from Broadest and Deepest Collection of Vulnerability Checks Available on Market.

COLUMBIA, Md. -- Tenable Network Security, Inc., a leading developer of security management solutions and creator of the popular and award-winning Nessus vulnerability scanner, today announces that it has surpassed 10,000 vulnerability checks for its vulnerability scanner, Nessus. By surpassing 10,000 vulnerability checks, Tenable provides organizations the broadest vulnerability identification available for known vulnerabilities on the market today. To review the types of checks for your network available from Tenable please visit http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=all.

New vulnerabilities are discovered and published every day. As a result, staying up-to-date is vital if your organization wants to identify known vulnerabilities on your network. Every day, Tenable's world-class research organization produces new vulnerability checks to enable Nessus to scan a network for the latest security issues. Tenable offers these vulnerability checks to customers along with support for Nessus in Tenable's "Direct Feed" service. As a service to the Internet community, Tenable also provides these vulnerability checks to the general public seven days after they become available to Tenable subscribers.

"In addition to offering a single, all-encompassing vulnerability database that gets updated regularly, Tenable developed and supports the Nessus Attack Scripting Language (NASL), which allows security professionals to use a simple language to create their own custom individual vulnerability checks," said Renaud Deraison, Chief Research Officer, Tenable Network Security.

To learn more about how to implement Nessus and become a Tenable subscriber, please visit http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/direct.shtml.

For corporations and government agencies that want to leverage and extend Nessus, Tenable produces highly optimized, turn-key enterprise vulnerability and security event management solutions. Tenable's enterprise vulnerability management product, the Tenable Security Center (also known as the Lightning Console), adds powerful scan scheduling, asset tagging, remediation tracking and reporting as well as vulnerability correlation with intrusion detection events, to improve incident response prioritization.

About Tenable Network Security

Tenable Network Security develops enterprise security solutions that provide vulnerability management and security event management for Global 2000 organizations for effective network security management. Tenable is uniquely positioned to detect vulnerabilities with active and passive scanning and analysis, and host-based patch monitoring for enterprise networks. For more information, please visit us at www.tenablesecurity.com.