Nessus
About Nessus
Nessus is a cloud-based security configuration and vulnerability assessment solution designed to help security practitioners identity and resolve vulnerabilities to protect organizations against various security risks. It comes with pre-defined templates which can be customized by users to scan for critical vulnerabilities.
Key features of Nessus include asset discovery, web scanning, policy management, prioritization, and vulnerability assessment. It allows businesses to tailor scans based on individual preferences, ensuring compliance with several Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks and other best practices. Security teams can generate reports on vulnerability types, export them in a range of file formats including CSV, HTML and XML, sort data by client or team, and share them via email after every scan for improving transparency across processes.
Nessus comes with a live results module, which enables users to perform offline vulnerability assessments in order to detect, validate, and prioritize issues for improving organizational security. Teams can also categorize similar vulnerabilities and present the issues in a single thread to streamline prioritization and ensure immediate remediation of issues.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Tenable Nessus- A Robust Vulnerability Assessment Tool
Reviewed on 2023/12/07
It is my favorite tool which is used for vulnerability assessment which helps to find security...
It is my favorite tool which is used for vulnerability assessment which helps to find security breaches and threats. Its less complicated to administrate too . After doing lot of researches with different tools we have finally decided to go with Tenable Nessus . Also the automation part is pretty much helpful .Scan report helped me to find the security threats and implement that based on the report
Pros
Most i liked about this product is that its designed to be user friendly ,making it usable for both experienced and intermediate who are less familiar with vulnerabilities and next important is their frequent updates system which helps in making the security system more effective
Cons
1. Scanning time is bit high
2. Sometimes false positives
3.Cost factor
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Nessus Vulnarability Scanning Tool
Reviewed on 2021/06/22
Nessus is #1 Vulnerability scanning tool which I ever seen and also Nessus tool has given fullest...
Nessus is #1 Vulnerability scanning tool which I ever seen and also Nessus tool has given fullest support to get PCIDSS certificate to our organization.
I strongly commanding others to protect there organization with Nessus tool.
Pros
Administrator can simply use predefined policy and easy to apply related product as a template.
Also the reporting is 99.99% accuracy and easy to understand and easy to find a solutions.
Cons
When we define a bulk scan, Nessus tool is getting more Computer/Server resources.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
It's a vulnerability scanner
Reviewed on 2020/12/10
The client side agent is lightweight and easy to deploy once you get it successfully installed and...
The client side agent is lightweight and easy to deploy once you get it successfully installed and reporting in. The adminstrative console is somewhat confusing, but provides very detailed reports that you can customize to your liking.
Pros
Does what it is supposed to. Provides a good overview of vulnerabilities across systems for internal security assessments and audits. Easy to deploy MSI package
Cons
Support is something to be desired. During initial setup in our environment, there were several complications when attempting to connect machines to the tenable.io cloud and provide the client machines with updates. The support group couldn't provide necessary assistance and we ultimately left to troubleshoot on our own.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Nessus Professional Gets The Job Done
Reviewed on 2020/08/25
This product does a great job of informing your IT and security groups on what may be vulnerable in...
This product does a great job of informing your IT and security groups on what may be vulnerable in your environment. Especially if your organization is looking to begin a program, start small and use this service to build up your processes and program before sinking large amounts of money into other services or products.
Pros
Nessus is still the industry leader in this arena, and the ability for the product to identify vulnerabilities accurately is still the high water mark to beat. You can be up and running in just a few minutes, and the ability to have recurring scans is a great way for this product to help you with your security program. The "Plugin Output" fields help greatly when trying to determine if tests are a false positive, and lends additional credence to your system administrators when you can show them exactly *why* something has been detected as a vulnerability.
Cons
There are no ways to track vulnerabilities or your efforts to monitor them over time; this truly is just a point-in-time view of your environment unless you upgrade to a much more expensive product.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
The quality is OK but they should support more API call to do automation
Reviewed on 2019/11/15
Simple, the quality of report also good. The price is reasonable for Pro version.
Simple, the quality of report also good. The price is reasonable for Pro version.
Pros
Simple interface, even end-user can use it. Easy to install.
Cons
Everything is good, but since they stop nessus manager, I can not find the way to do automation.
Nessus FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Nessus.Q. What type of pricing plans does Nessus offer?
Nessus offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$4,000.20/one-time
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Available
Nessus Essentials is available as a free download for students and educators to scan up to 16 IPs. Nessus Pro: $2,390 for one year, or $2,790 for one year with Advanced Support. $4,660 for two years, or $5,460 for two years with Advanced Support. $6,811.50 for three years, or $8,011.50 for three for Advanced Support. A 7-day free trial of Nessus Pro is also available.
Q. Who are the typical users of Nessus?
Nessus has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Nessus support?
Nessus supports the following languages:
Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
Q. Does Nessus support mobile devices?
Nessus supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Nessus integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Nessus has
Q. What level of support does Nessus offer?
Nessus offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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