Francios: You are correct, that may be an option for our Windows users ... but we have this growing population of crazy people who think that in order to get a good computer they have to spend twice as much as everyone else, you may know them as apple users : )
Sorry to any Apple people out there, but Apple and I don't see eye-to-eye ... on anything. Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth Network Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 ________________________________________ From: Francois Gaudreault [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Packetfence-users] OpenVAS vs Nessus Hi Jake, You forgot another option, SoH (Microsoft NAP). If you do WPA2-Enterprise, you can use SoH to do conformity assessment on the Microsoft based computers connecting to the 802.1X SSID. I just wanted to mention it :) On 12-02-28 11:06 AM, Sallee, Stephen (Jake) wrote: > We are about to deploy scanning in PF, which engine is better? OpenVAS or > Nessus? I know about Nessus (but we aren't experts) and it is legendary for > its ability to scan hosts. However it is not exactly user-friendly. > > We do not have any experience with OpenVAS, so naturally we do not know how > well it works or how friendly it is. > > So I ask you community (and Inverse) what would you suggestion be, Nessus or > OpenVAS and why? > > Also, as an aside: We are also planning on deploying a network of snort > sensors. Given that snort should detect all undesirable network traffic (if > you configure it correctly) is network posturing a worth while endeavor? > > Jake Sallee > Godfather of Bandwidth > Network Engineer > University of Mary Hardin-Baylor > > 900 College St. > Belton, Texas > 76513 > > Fone: 254-295-4658 > Phax: 254-295-4221 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Packetfence-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users > -- Francois Gaudreault, ing. jr [email protected] :: +1.514.447.4918 (x130) :: www.inverse.ca Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence (www.packetfence.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
