Hi

I was just wondering if we could co0mpletely phase out
the nessus client and move towards a server-only
architecture, wherein the server directly runs
vulnerability tests on the targets andd the user has
some kind of an interface directly with the server.

I know that it allows a remote administrator a lot of
freedom.. But i guess a significant amount of overhead
would be eliminated, and probably we could concentrate
more on the development of nessusd.

I dont think most modern organisations run the server
and client on different machines anyway.

Detached scans are a great thing, but still hog a lot
of bandwidth. SSL, is a great thing, but still not 100
percent secure. Maybe we could have an option wherein
we could either log on the server, specify the targets
and let it attack the tagets, and get the report back
on the same machine with no .nessusrc, No SSL between
the client and the server and no NTP, or we could use
the existing architecture.

I know that there are many complex things involved,
and this is only an observation.

No offence intended

Regards
Ashutosh


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