Nessus (BYOL)
Tenable, Inc. | 10.8.3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20240903 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Tenable is a must for Vulnerability Scanning
What do you like best about the product?
Tenable Nessus is easy to setup and easy to navigate. The reporting gives good detail to help remediate the vulnerabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have been using Tenable Nessus for many years and I can't say I have any dislikes for the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tenable Nessus helps keep the network secure by finding vulnerabilities before they become an issue.
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Nessus is a great tool for vulnerability scanning and remediation guidance
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus is a powerful tool with extensive reporting and automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I haven't found anything to dislike about Nessus.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tenable Nessus scans our external and internal network resources, analyzes vulnerabilities and provides guidance on mitigating those risks. Scheduled scan results are sent to our team to analyze and respond accordingly.
Tenable Nessus
What do you like best about the product?
Tenable Nessus has been the industry standard for many years. This is because it will do everything that you need it to do while scanning your infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus may require some technology knowledge higher than a normal user.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus shines a light on the short comings of some security configurations in our environment.
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.
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,
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