Renaud Deraison is the primary author of the open-source Nessus vulnerability scanner project. He has worked for SolSoft, and founded his own computing security consulting company, "Nessus Consulting S.A.R.L." Nessus has won numerous awards, most notably, the 2002 Network Computing 'Well Connected' award. Mr. Deraison has presented at a variety of security conferences including Black Hat and CanSecWest. He joins TNS as the Director of Security Research.

AusCERT2004 Presentations:

Advances in security scanning
Day Three: Wednesday, 26th May 2004, 1105 - 1145 (Technical Stream)

Introduction to Nessus
Day Four: Thursday, 27th May 2004, 1340 - 1710 (Tutorial 9)