Editing Nessus (software) (section)

==History==

In 1998 Renaud Deraison created ''The Nessus Project'' as a free remote security scanner.<ref name=NNA>{{cite book|title=Nessus Network Auditing|isbn=978-1-59749-208-9|first=Mark|last=Carey|author2=Russ Rogers|author3=Paul Criscuolo|author4=Mike Petruzzi|date=21 May 2008 |publisher=O'reilly}}</ref> On October 5 2005, with the release of Nessus 3, the project changed from the [[GNU General Public License]] to a [[Closed source|proprietary license]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/celebrating-30-years-in-cybersecuity/|title=SC 30th Anniversary Awards|date=2019-03-09|first=Doug|last=Olenick|publisher=SC Media}}</ref>

The Nessus 2 engine and some of the plugins are still using the GNU General Public License, leading to [[Fork (software development)|forks]] based on Nessus like [[OpenVAS]]{{r|NNA}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.openvas.org/|title=OpenVAS|accessdate=2009-10-21}}</ref> and [[Greenbone Sustainable Resilience]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.greenbone.net/impressum/|title=Greenbone|accessdate=2021-03-07}}</ref>