Nessus (BYOL)
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Makes finding vulnerabilities a breeze
What do you like best about the product?
We use it to find vulnerabilities with primarily Windows Servers. It does a great job of finding missing patches and missing settings to enable some of those patches.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus Manager is not good for larger teams needing to manage scan definitions. It is also needs significant customization for doing compliance scans.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it primarily to uncover problems with our patch management processes.
Tenable - Still a Leader
What do you like best about the product?
The forward thinking vision and ease of use and customization
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of migration plan for SC > IO for customers requiring an on-premise solution. IO is a vast improvement, but on-prem deployment limits options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
vulnerability scanning and configuration drift. By ingesting Tenable data into the Fortress VRM workflow and analytics platform along with other data sources, we are able to achieve excellent visibility and prioritization to actually reduce risk for our customers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
No need to look further, for vuln scanning and configuration compliance monitoring,Tenable has you covered. For remediation workflow, ingestion of other non-tenable data sources and advanced analytics we recommend looking at products like Fortress VRM
NESSUS Review
What do you like best about the product?
We can automate it and use it with our CI to produce potential candidate vulnerabilities. It finds many potential issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Several of the issues NESSUS finds are really low probability issues for us, so we end up chasing things we really would not have to look at.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WE are using it daily to pre-identify potential security issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Perhaps tune it to have options to identify vulnerability issues by level of importance.
Great vulnerability scanner...easy to use!
What do you like best about the product?
The software is easy to use and setup. It has a large database of vulnerabilities and will alert you to issues including malware, missing patches, mis-configurations, default passwords, etc. Lots of options for exporting the data: CSV, PDF, HTML, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not many dislikes. Again, very user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trying to ensure that our network is free from vulnerabilities gives us the assurance that our data is protected.
Nessus does the job
What do you like best about the product?
Easy navigation of Nessus interface. Scans on demand or scheduled.
Easy setup of the software, with intuitive design of scans, including creating your own specialized or custom scans
Easy setup of the software, with intuitive design of scans, including creating your own specialized or custom scans
What do you dislike about the product?
Numerous false positive found. Sometimes dependent on server usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping PCI compliance by identifying assets with vulnerabilities, and recommended remediation
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Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nessus does a good job finding and identifying vulnerabilities for remediation.
Exceptional product
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus gives clear and concise explanations of the findings and links how to resolve them
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the wording sometimes I find it hard to figure which system is having the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have passed major government audits using nesses.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Well rounded products and you get out what you put into it.
Powerful and comprehensive vulnerability scanner
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy the thoroughness of Nessus and the ability to customize scanned plugin definitions.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not always the easiest to find particular settings within Nessus. Not impossible, but you have to dig a little.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus has assisted us with remaining PCI compliant for 9 years straight, and helps us catch vulnerabilities that we would otherwise never have seen.
Nessus helps keep us secure!
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus just works! I am able to create scheduled credentialed jobs and add my hosts. I know the job will always run and always produce the needed results. This helps me stay on top of our organizational risks.
What do you dislike about the product?
We tend to lean towards open source software whenever possible. I still wish Nessus was open source, but the current pricing model isn't too bad.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our risk profile is much lower than when we didn't have Nessus. We are able to identify vulnerabilities and correct them very easily.
Secure the network from vulnerability, threats and malware.
What do you like best about the product?
One of the most commonly used vulnerability analysis methods. It is very efficient to scan application servers, DB servers, network devices like switches, routers, firewalls and proxy servers, which allows every system to operate one only to scan vulnerabilities and incomplete patch reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
The method is quite intense but, in the process, we want to use Nessus and the setup of a scan is appropriate, but requires the expertise to get all the desired results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With so many features for security scans in web applications Nexus is among the industry's top vulnerability scanners. For Windows operating systems Nessus can run through the web browser.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Excellent software It is very easy to implement in my opinion it is one of the best products on the market.
Nessus Scanner
What do you like best about the product?
Network Scanner is good.
Delivers good quality and accurate vulnerabilities.
Overall good tool.
Delivers good quality and accurate vulnerabilities.
Overall good tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Webapp scanner need improvement it need lots of information to run an authenticated scan.
In Network I believe new scripts needs to be added as per new upcoming vulnerabilities in the industry
In Network I believe new scripts needs to be added as per new upcoming vulnerabilities in the industry
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scanning is done good and accurate reports
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Improve requirements to use run a scan, in authenticated scans it need s a lot of options required
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