Overview

Nessus is the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Trusted by more than 24,000 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 100,000 plugins, Nessus delivers the most in-depth coverage and accuracy to the marketplace. The Nessus AMI is built on Tenable Core, Tenable's customized and hardened version of Oracle Linux 8. Nessus AMI licenses may be purchased on the Tenable Online Store.

Highlights

Prevents attacks by identifying vulnerabilities in the attack surface, allowing IT professionals to mitigate them before attacks occur.
Easy configuration and management: policy creation wizards and scan scheduling.
Daily updates ensure ongoing vulnerability and IT asset coverage.

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Tenable, Inc.

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Tenable Core + Nessus (OL8)

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

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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.

Version release notes

https://docs.tenable.com/release-notes/Content/tenable-core/tenablecore.htm

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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. (Optional) If you want to use the GUI to configure this AMI, the connect your browser to https://instance:8000 . In order to use the GUI on port 8000 you must configure your user with a password either by supplying it in the userdata section of 'Configure Instance Details' or by setting one after logging in via ssh with an SSH key.

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Tenable Online Store: Buy a Nessus License

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