Compliance Windows Command Execution Enhancement
Summary The Windows Compliance Check plugin is implementing an updated library to run commands on Windows targets. The enhancements will include the following benefits. The plugin will improve on its handling of command timeouts. There were issues when long running commands would timeout on the scanner but leave temporary files on the target. This update will force long running checks to close when timing out and remove temporary files. The recently released improved resource management controls for Windows plugins on agents will now be extended to running audits. Potential Impacts: Tenable has gone to great lengths to ensure that the content that it publishes will operate and produce the same results that it always has. Customized audits may exhibit some changes due to the introduced job control of the command execution. These changes tend to be compliance checks that generate different results (failure instead of passing), or the actual values of the check have different text that would affect baseline scans. If custom content does exhibit these issues, strategies to work with the new library can be found in Compliance WMI Library Enhancement. Tenable Plugins 21156 - Windows Compliance Checks Target Release Date February 9, 2026
PCI Agent Scan Template now available!
As a result of the PCI DSS 4.x specification release, credentialed scanning is now a requirement for the PCI internal scanning. In response, Tenable has created the Tenable PCI Agent scan template, which can be used to scan your network via the PCI Internal Nessus Agent scan template in Tenable Vulnerability Management. For systems where agents cannot be installed, the defined approach in PCI DSS 11.3.1.2 (by way of the Internal PCI Network Scan scan template) is still applicable. The internal PCI network scan (uncredentialed network scan) is still required to cover vulnerabilities related to network services by port scans. Please visit LINK for details on scan configuration and also LINK for configuration of the PCI Agent.