Renaud Deraison
Author of Nessus
The vulnerability scanner that defined the category
Rating
87Impact score
Domains
Vulnerability managementScanningProduct security
Scouting report
Released Nessus in 1998 as a free scanner with its own plugin language, at a point when the alternative was an expensive appliance. Co-founded Tenable Network Security around it in 2002 and took the product closed-source in 2005, a decision the community argued about for years. Vulnerability management as a routine operational practice largely grew out of that codebase.
Curator’s note
The scan report that lands in an admin’s inbox every Monday started here.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Renaud Deraison by Alexandre Dulaunoy, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sources
- 01Nessus (software) en.wikipedia.org
- 02Tenable leadership tenable.com