I missed this one last week. It turns out that Sourcefire and Insecure.org have teamed up to produce an open source vulnerability scanning tool.
The two software vendors signed a license agreement to jointly develop the software using the Nmap Scripting Engine embedded within the Nmap network discovery tool. Under the terms of the agreement, Insecure.org will develop the engine while the Sourcefire researchers will develop and contribute plug-ins for discovering specific vulnerabilities.
The new integrated features will allow the software to identify real-time network changes using the Nmap capabilities to discover specific vulnerability information for data that has been added or changed.
The new engine technology will be available within the open source Nmap Security Scanner as well as bundled into the commercial Sourcefire 3D System.
[tags]Sourcefire, Insecure.org, Nmap, Vulnerabiity Scanning[/tags]
