Changes to Custom User-Agent Setting

Summary

Tenable is making an improvement to the UI that exposes the “Use a custom User-Agent”  option without requiring the “Scan web applications” toggle to be enabled.

Change

Before, the “Use a custom User-Agent” option would not be available without first turning on the “Scan web applications” toggle. 

After the change, the “Use a custom User-Agent” option is exposed without requiring the Scan “Web Applications toggle” to be enabled.

Impact

When creating new scans, customers will be able to leverage the custom User-Agent header to identify requests that came from Nessus without requiring Web Application Scanning to be enabled. There is no change to the existing user agent setting when web app scanning is enabled.

Release Date

Immediate for Nessus and Tenable Vulnerability Management

TBD for Security Center