For organisations
Using DENIS in an organisation
DENIS is moving from a community project towards a product that organisations can rely on. This page says where it stands, what the license allows (including a free 30-day evaluation), and how a business, an industrial organisation or a service provider can get in touch about a commercial license or a supported evaluation.
Where DENIS stands today
- Your organisation can evaluate the Community edition free for 30 days, on up to 100 devices, without asking first (see below).
- DENIS is not sold yet: commercial licenses are issued individually, there is no self-service purchase, and support is not offered as a service.
- The next steps, in order: stabilise the current version; an independent penetration test (planned, not done yet); fix what it finds; validate DENIS with real organisations; then decide on commercial availability.
- What is tested on real equipment, what only in simulation, and what is experimental is on the supported infrastructure and security and trust pages.
What the license allows
- Evaluation (clause 2A). An organisation may use the Community edition free of charge for 30 days from its first installation, on up to 100 devices, to evaluate and demonstrate DENIS (not to run its operations). After that it stops using DENIS or gets a commercial license. Installing again does not restart the period, and DENIS does not count the days or switch itself off: the condition is in the license.
- Beyond the evaluation. Any other use by or for a business, non-profit, government body or other organisation, whatever the number of devices, and any installation above 100 devices, needs a separate commercial license from the author (clause 2). Licenses are issued individually.
- Tiers. Commercial licenses come in the tiers DENIS 500, DENIS 5000 and DENIS 20000, by the number of devices counted; above 20,000 devices a license is arranged individually. A device counts while it has been seen in the last 30 days, and the list is cut to the licensed number only past the cap: detection, alerting and protection never stop. Every license can also act as an MSP license: there is no separate MSP edition. DENIS is not sold yet: licenses are issued individually and there is no self-service purchase.
- Personal use. The Community edition is free for personal, non-commercial use on one installation monitoring up to 100 devices.
The exact terms are in the license. The built-in demo, which runs on a laptop with a fictional company and captures nothing, can be used at any time.
We are looking for early evaluation partners
DENIS has been tested in the lab and on simulated equipment; it now needs real networks. We would especially like to hear from:
- European manufacturing and industrial organisations,
- with roughly 100 to 1,000 connected devices,
- a mixed IT and OT network,
- and an interest in passive network monitoring from a mirror port or tap.
You can start on your own: the free 30-day evaluation under clause 2A of the license (up to 100 devices, for evaluation and demonstration) needs no registration. If you tell us about your evaluation, we can learn from what works and what does not in your network. Taking part is not an offer of support, of access to anything beyond the Community edition, or of a license, and nothing is for sale here. Service providers and integrators are welcome too; there is no partner programme.
Register interest
A few details are enough. Write to mail@usedenis.com with:
- your organisation and country;
- roughly how many connected devices, and whether the network is IT, OT or mixed;
- in one or two sentences, what you would like DENIS to help with.