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Nessus (BYOL)

Tenable, Inc. | 10.7.2

Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20240318 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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2 AWS reviews

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273 reviews
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5-star reviews ( Show all reviews )

    Mr. A.

Best application web application pentester and researcher.

  • June 18, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Beside every tool, i love to use nessus more often because of it's accuracy it's been really easy and handy to use it. I personally love to use it more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Well, there is nothing much I have about tool. And i seriously don't remember last time when this tool disappointed me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm into web application penetration testing, and this tool helped me in getting the accurate result unlike other tools as well as it's kinda fast and reliable.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I personally believe that, people don't just seeing reviews or ads but they believe after using it. So I recommend using it.


    Swapnesh C.

Best Automation Tool for Vulnerability Assessment

  • June 07, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Nessus helps in running credential-based scanning of different servers. It also has templates for multiple network devices like firewalls, switches, etc.
The reporting feature of this tool is also the best with editable elements like logo and severity levels.
What do you dislike about the product?
Till now, I didn't find any negative points regarding Nessus.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus helps in running credential-based scanning of different servers. It also has templates for multiple network devices like firewalls, switches, etc.
Nessus also provides templates for scanning web applications and MDM applications.
Nessus also provides reports in different formats, which we can use in various tasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For all the people who are doing penetration testing, Nessus is the best tool to get started with.


    Computer & Network Security

The best tool for your recon

  • June 05, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It scans not only remote flaws of the host but their missing patches and other versions also
What do you dislike about the product?
Its little bit heavy for sma end devices so developer should focus on wide variety and flexibility
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As i am seeking Pentester i used Nessus for finding vulnerabilities in host which is quick fast and reliable


    Mahendra D.

Nessus review

  • June 05, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The simple and easily understandable user interface makes the task faster.
Email feature for all the alerts like task completion etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus should give details results for the issue when the scan failed on a VPN connection while scanning the internal network.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using this to perform vulnerability assessment and configuration assessment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I have recommended this to my colleague.


    Charis S.

An efficient and user-friendly vulnerability scanner

  • June 04, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
friendly user interface, quick and effective vulnerability scanning, trustworthy findings. Moreover Nessus provides a builtin reporting mechanism in order to quickly and effectively produce finding report
What do you dislike about the product?
Somehow complicated setup in a Linux environment. Moreover some of Nessus findings are often false-positive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation of vulnerability scanning in Web application pen testing assignments. Moreover, it effectively speeds up the initial steps of the web application security testing procedure as it does a good job of mapping the web application and uncovering vulnerabilities or bugs of the web application
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend nessus scanner to anyone seeking to use an effective automated vulnerability scanner. It provides a beautiful user interface while its reporting format is quite satisfactory


    Health, Wellness and Fitness

Nessus make Easy to Identify Vulnerabilities To secure your network/protocol/OS

  • June 02, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy to identify vulnerability and give fix in description.
What do you dislike about the product?
No downside for using nessus.
Help in fixing vulnerabilities
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
using Nessus for network devices & server scanning.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I strongly recommend nessus for vulnerability scanning to identify weakness and fix to secure yourself from threats.


    Sapna R.

Nessus security Ninja tool

  • May 28, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It help to identify the vulnerability in application /system/ network.
It privide the brief description about vulnerability where it also covered mitigation cve details and reffrneces.
Easy to use
You can set the target eailsy
Less error and accuracy
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with others tool difficult sometime
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security Vulnerability we found during scan.

Post scanning we fixed multiple issues to avoid the attack risk


    Information Services

As a Beginner, It was easy to explore the tool

  • May 01, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
User Interface and Guides in the Internet
What do you dislike about the product?
Product should provide free training for Knowledge
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to Identify the hosts in the Network and saves time in Identifying the Hosts.


    Jay G.

Best Tool For Vulnerability Assessment

  • April 23, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
GUI is very simple, and always updated with latest plug-ins
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing, Nessus is very good application
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can secure company IT environment by knowing open vulnerabilities via nessus tool. To act upon and close all VA gaps.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just go for it without any hesitation.


    Computer Networking

Helps me a lot easy to use it is one of my favs as its too much handy once its setup completely

  • April 22, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Vuln scanner is the best part its handy and provides so much information just wonderful
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the cost seems to be very high for learning as trail period is so less
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The vuln analysis actually am a fan of it fast,easy,and organised