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    Nessus (BYOL)

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    Nessus provides vulnerability analysis, patch confirmation, configuration assessment, and sensitive data identification for EC2 environments and instances.

    Overview

    Nessus is the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Trusted by more than 27,000 organizations worldwide, Nessus provides vulnerability analysis, patch confirmation, configuration assessment, and sensitive data identification for EC2 environments and instances. With a continuously updated library of more than 109,000 plugins, Nessus delivers the most in-depth coverage and accuracy to the marketplace.

    Highlights

    • Prevent attacks by identifying vulnerabilities in the attack surface, allowing IT professionals to mitigate them before attacks occur
    • Leverage policy creation wizards and scan scheduling for easy configuration and management
    • Ensure ongoing vulnerability and IT asset coverage with daily updates

    Details

    Delivery method

    Delivery option
    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Latest version

    Operating system
    AmazonLinux 20240903

    Features and programs

    Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases

    AWS Marketplace now accepts line of credit payments through the PNC Vendor Finance program. This program is available to select AWS customers in the US, excluding NV, NC, ND, TN, & VT.
    Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases

    Pricing

    Pricing and entitlements for this product are managed outside of AWS Marketplace through an external billing relationship between you and the vendor. You activate the product by supplying an existing license purchased outside of AWS Marketplace, while AWS provides the infrastructure required to launch the product. Subscriptions have no end date and may be cancelled any time. However, the cancellation won't affect the status of an active license if it was purchased outside of AWS Marketplace.
    Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator  to estimate your infrastructure costs.

    Additional AWS infrastructure costs

    Type
    Cost
    EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes
    $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage

    Vendor refund policy

    No refunds

    Legal

    Vendor terms and conditions

    Upon subscribing to this product, you must acknowledge and agree to the terms and conditions outlined in the vendor's End User License Agreement (EULA) .

    Content disclaimer

    Vendors are responsible for their product descriptions and other product content. AWS does not warrant that vendors' product descriptions or other product content are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.

    Usage information

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    Delivery details

    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

    Additional details

    Usage instructions

    Once the instance is running, point your browser to https://<instance>:8834/, where <instance> is either the fully qualified domain name or IP address of the instance.

    Support

    Vendor support

    AWS infrastructure support

    AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.

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    Financial Services

    One of the best vulnerability scanners on the market

    Reviewed on Oct 24, 2024
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Nessus was very easy to install, and we were up and running in very little time. There are lots of various scan type options to choose from. Our third party auditors also use Nessus for internal vulnerability scans, and we were able to import their scanning template in order to do accurate post remediation scans. We were able to easily setup a weekly scan schedule. Product updates are simple and straight forward, and we recieve notification when new versions are available. The price was also within our budget.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    I wish Nessus had a vulnerability remediation option. Finding all the detailed vulnerabilities is only half the battle, researching the vulnerability and the fix is also time consuming. Nessus does have links to the CVE or KB docs, and many times remediation reccomendations, but the patching process is still manual. I realize that automatic remediation may not always be the best practice depending on the vulnerability, the system/device, and various other factors, but possibly some options for simple patches would be very useful.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    It finds and categorizes all vulnerabilities on all device types. Our previous product would only work with Windows devices for instance, so you are not getting a complete picture of your entire network. Vulnerabilities are categorized based on criticality, so you can prioritize your remediation process.
    Information Technology and Services

    Nessus Professional has the best price/coverage ratio of the industry

    Reviewed on Oct 22, 2024
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Tenable Nessus Professional is widely praised for several key features that make it a preferred choice for vulnerability management BUT I want to focus my review on why it make sense for you if you have a lot of IP to scan.
    Most of the scanners have licenses per IP, so if you have wide ip ranges, licenses fee would be astronomious.
    You will need to accomodate the limited reporting and vulnerability management feature of the proffessional version.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Nessus Professional need some good process OR automation to get the most of it as you dont have any 'quality of life' feature like dashboard, tracking and limited automation.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Tenable Nessus solves problems related to cybersecurity, primarily by helping organizations identify vulnerabilities in their networks, systems, and applications. The benefits include enhanced security and compliance.
    Government Administration

    Great Tool

    Reviewed on Oct 22, 2024
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    The Nessus scans give us insight into areas we might have vunerabilities
    What do you dislike about the product?
    The past scans can take up disk space. I haven't found a good way to automatically remove the old ones.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Nessus scans our systems for vulnerabilities. We are able to prioritize our updates from the scans.
    Higher Education

    Smooth Experience

    Reviewed on Sep 19, 2024
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    I started using Nessus as a undergrad student and it was so easy that I could run scans without any tutorials.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    There is nothing to like about it. Although the UI can be modernise
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    I learnt how to use Vulnerability scans to find out threats
    Deepsan V.

    Tenable Nessus professional

    Reviewed on May 08, 2024
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Nessus has one of the largest libraries of vulnerability and configuration checks, covering a wide range of systems, devices, and applications.
    Despite its comprehensive feature set, Nessus is known for its user-friendly interface, which can help users get up and running quickly.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    While Nessus is known for its comprehensive vulnerability scanning capabilities, it can sometimes produce false positives, which can lead to unnecessary work for security teams.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Nessus provides comprehensive visibility into vulnerabilities across an organization's entire IT environment, which can help security teams prioritize remediation efforts and reduce risk.
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