Should I use .nrs or .nessus ?

[nexact]

Hello,

I would like to know if .NSR will be deprecated in the future, if yes.. when
?

Thanks.

[Ron Gula]

Post by nexact
Hello,
I would like to know if .NSR will be deprecated in the future, if yes.. when
?

Tenable has depreciated it. NSR output is still available in a few of our
products, but .nessus is the standard going forward.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

[Lachance, François]

Interesting. Your answer makes me wonder what Tenable position is regarding .NBE output. Is it the same?

Thanks,

François


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Post by nexact
Hello,
I would like to know if .NSR will be deprecated in the future, if yes.. when
?

Tenable has depreciated it. NSR output is still available in a few of our
products, but .nessus is the standard going forward.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

[Renaud Deraison]

Post by Lachance, François
Interesting. Your answer makes me wonder what Tenable position is
regarding .NBE output. Is it the same?

We do not _recommend_ using .nbe, because it gives you less context
than the .nessus format, but at this time there is no plan to remove it.


-- Renaud

[Bob Babcock]

Post by Renaud Deraison
We do not _recommend_ using .nbe, because it gives you less context
than the .nessus format, but at this time there is no plan to remove it.

I run .nbe output through an emacs macro to produce a csv file with just
machine name, plugin number and a short description. This makes a to-do
list of things to fix. I'm scanning only Windows machines that are
mostly up-to-date, so the list of short descriptions I have to maintain
is less than 1% of the total plugin count. So I'm glad to hear that
.nbe will continue to be supported.

[Jones, David H]

This actually segues nicely in to a topic I've been meaning to look in to for a long time but haven't had the time to do so.

I know .nessus is the newest, recommended output type, but how does it differ from the .xml output?




David Jones
Principal Financial Group
I/S Information Security
711 High Street
Des Moines, IA 50392-0257

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Subject: Should I use .nrs or .nessus ?

Hello,

I would like to know if .NSR will be deprecated in the future, if yes.. when ?

Thanks.



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Post by Jones, David H
This actually segues nicely in to a topic I've been meaning to look in to for a long time but haven't had the time to do so.
I know .nessus is the newest, recommended output type, but how does it differ from the .xml output?

Hi Dave,

Which XML output are you referring too?

This would be a great topic for a discussion on the new portal: https://discussions.nessus.org/
especially since this list will be going away shortly.

Ron Gula
http://www.tenablesecurity.com