Sussen v0.2 Released

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Subject: Sussen v0.2 Released
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Toronto, ON) June 06, 2003 –  Star Chamber Inc. is proud to announce
the release of Sussen v0.2.  Sussen is a client for the Nessus Security
Scanner.  It based on the GNOME 2.2 and attempts to take full advantage
of the platform.

Sussen is incredibly easy to use, you can perform a vulnerability assessment
with just a few mouse clicks, making it a must have for current nessus
users.  Version 0.2 also provides easy to understand druids to help with
common tasks.

The report viewer has also been re-designed so you can get at the
information you want quickly and easily.

Using Sussen's policy manager, you can save various plugin sets for easy
use.  In this release we have provided policy files "All Plugins", "All
But Dangerous Plugins", and the ever popular  "SANS TOP 20" (partial).

Source code and screen shots are available from
http://sussen.sourceforge.net/.  This development project is sponsored
by Star Chamber Inc.

The software, and it's source code are being released under the terms of
the GNU Public License

About Star Chamber

Star Chamber is a full service Information Security company. Based in
Toronto Canada, with a global client list, our consultants have helped a
wide range of companies and organizations to secure their information
assets. Our consulting staff is 100% CISSP certified with experience in
the Financial, Government, Telecommunications and other industries. Star
Chamber Services include Information Security Assessments, Information
Forensic Services, Secure Media Disposal, Security Consulting and
Security Software Development.

For more information please visit www.starchamber.ca

About GNOME (www.gnome.org)

GNOME is a free software project that is developing a complete, easy to
use desktop for Linux-based operating systems, BSD and a variety of
other Unix and Unix-like operating systems. The GNOME desktop is used by
millions of people around the world. More than 500 computer developers,
including over 100 full-time, paid developers, contribute their time and
effort to the project.

About Nessus (www.nessus.org)

The Nessus project aims to provide to the Internet community a free,
powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner.  Nessus
allows users to remotely audit a given network and determine whether anyone
may break into it, or misuse it in some way.

For media inquiries, please contact:

Darrin Nowakowski
Star Chamber, Inc.
Tel: 416.318.7420
darrin@starchamber.ca

-- 
Loren Bandiera, CISSP <lorenb@starchamber.ca>
Star Chamber Inc.