Nessus may be good for network vulnerability scanning (even then it is not sufficient as you may have to eliminate false positives). However, PCI also states that any web apps using credit cards need to go through that test as well. You may be better off using an app tester (like watchfire's app scan which is expensive but great or webinspect which is good but reporting mechanism sucks or paros which is free but not great for huge apps but good for crawling a site and manually testing your results). Bottomline: integrate the two and you will get better results. Scanning a network without scanning an app that uses credit cards or other private information will only cause issues. Keep in mind certain changes to PCI DSS implemented recently.
Sanjeev ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Petty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:49 PM Subject: Using Nessus for PCI > We are getting ready to take the test to become an ASV for PCI scanning. > We use nessus and retina for our vulnerability scans. We rely on nessus > because retina does not work as well on external scans. I'm also > purchasing the direct feed subscription this week. > > Are there any ASV's on this list? Does anyone know if the nessus > vulnerability risk level is sufficient for PCI reports? > > Are there any tips for our up coming test that you can give me? > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
