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Tenable adds PVS to Nessus family of products

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LAS VEGAS, USA: Tenable Network Security, the leader in real-time vulnerability management, announced at Black Hat USA 2013 that its Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS) will be available at the end of August as a standalone product.

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Previously available only to Tenable's SecurityCenter and SecurityCenter CV customers, PVS can now be used by any company, security specialist or compliance auditor that wants to monitor their networks in real-time, in a non-intrusive manner.

Using network sniffing technology, PVS is an ideal solution to monitor systems sensitive to disruption by traditional scanning, transient systems like mobile, virtual and cloud apps that may not be present during scheduled scans.

PVS complements Nessus active scanning by monitoring network traffic detecting apps, services, protocols, hosts that are not present or evade active scanning. By continuously monitoring the network, PVS provides visibility into both server and client-side vulnerabilities and identifies the flow of sensitive data and the use of common protocols and services.

"A hacker only needs one pathway into your network," said Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable. "Not knowing what an unmanaged device is doing on your network is a security blind spot. By offering PVS as a standalone product, we are opening up the availability of our products to thousands of security and compliance professionals, and are the only company that provides vulnerability protection to customers from unmanaged systems and applications."

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