Jake,

We do have an open feature request for SoH support in MAC supplicant. 
However, I don't know how long we will have to wait for having such 
feature.  I know there is a supplicant that provide SoH for MAC OSX, but 
I did not have the chance to test it yet.

To answer a bit on the Nessus/OpenVAS, both scanning engines are using 
(almost) the same plugins.  OpenVAS however will behave differently for 
the scans, also the reporting is different.  Nessus requires a Pro Feed, 
while OpenVAS is entirely free.  OpenVAS is a bit more complicated to 
install.

Maybe others can input more information.

On 12-02-28 11:24 AM, Sallee, Stephen (Jake) wrote:
> 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
>
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> ________________________________________
> 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
>>
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