Nessus (BYOL)
Tenable, Inc. | 10.8.3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20240903 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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One of the best vulnerability scanners on the market
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.
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Nessus Professional has the best price/coverage ratio of the industry
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.
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.
Great Tool
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.
Smooth Experience
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
Tenable Nessus professional
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.
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.
Nessus is one of the powerful tool in scanning vulnerabilities.
What do you like best about the product?
The format of the report with vulnerabilities and it's associated CVE with a detailed explanation is really commendable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The limited availability of features in a free Nessus software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Unlike other scanning tools like nmap, nessus provides a detailed view of vulnerabilities with a risk score and methods to exploit. It also outlines the exact service where the vulnerability is found.
Best free to use vulnerability scanner
What do you like best about the product?
-Free to use
-Has community version where you can use Nessus for free to some extent
-Great user interface
-It also identifies miscofinguration in code
-Versatile tool
-Great dashboards and reporting mechanism
-Has community version where you can use Nessus for free to some extent
-Great user interface
-It also identifies miscofinguration in code
-Versatile tool
-Great dashboards and reporting mechanism
What do you dislike about the product?
-I have only used free community version and it has quite a few limitation with number of hosts and scans etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have used Nessus in past for red teaming and penitration testing puposes in past. it really helps in discovering vulnerabilities at early stage. It also provides detailed vulnerability analysis and reports which can be used be for pathcing the same. It has very clean dashboard that makes it very easy to present the current status of vulenrability to the management,
"Nessus review - One of the best tool for on-prem VM"
What do you like best about the product?
I think Nessus is a best and versatile vulnerability assessment tool that helps organizations to manage their security risks. With comprehensive coverage, advanced scanning techniques, it provides accurate vulnerability detection.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus in the Pro version is limited to one user. Not follow up or comparison between latest scan and recent."
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Nessus for On-Prem Vulnerability management it fulfills our requirements.
One stop solution for Vulnerability Detection and Management
What do you like best about the product?
1. Detection capabilities are quite good in comparison to number of other similar solutions.
2. Easy to navigate and use GUI.
3. Most important, their plugin repo is always to the mark and updated, which help detects critical vulnerability without significant delays.
2. Easy to navigate and use GUI.
3. Most important, their plugin repo is always to the mark and updated, which help detects critical vulnerability without significant delays.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Nothing as such to complain of, as the major purpose is being handled in very efficient way, though scan time and results sometimes remain inconsistent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Detecting vulnerabilties(network based or system based) across organisation and help us indetify potential backdoor/loopwholes in the environment, patvhing them on time help us save from malicious adversaries.
Leading and best vulnerability scanning tool
What do you like best about the product?
1. Tenable Nessus is always up-to-date with the vulnerabilities database which scans for all the latest vulnerabilities.
2. They provide decent customer support.
3. It solves the implementation in 2 ways - agent-based and credentials-based.
4. It provides an interactive and nice GUI as well along with easy integration with other tools.
2. They provide decent customer support.
3. It solves the implementation in 2 ways - agent-based and credentials-based.
4. It provides an interactive and nice GUI as well along with easy integration with other tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
It cannot pull asset tags itself. We need to set up a whole different automation to ingest custom asset tags into Tenable nessus.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is solving a great organizational problem of vulnerabilities on the hosts and applications on it by reducing the attack surface for the attacker with scheduled scans, custom scan template and extensive vulnerability database.
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