Nessus (BYOL)
Tenable, Inc. | 10.7.3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20240503 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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.
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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,
Grat vulnerability scanning tool
What do you like best about the product?
Its reporting contains wonderful useful details and easy to understand. This tool also help to get refence link for reported vulnerabilty. support from vendor in really awesome.
What do you dislike about the product?
while selecting License need to bebit careful, as required features needs to available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it is helping to scan vulnerability in my hybrid environment. also this is integrayed with HCL BigFix.
"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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What do you like best about the product?
Tenable Nessus is very efficient and effective tool which is used for security, network, vulnerability scanning and managing. Its interface is very user friendly. The scanning and reporting is automated which increases the productivity.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes we have to fetch report for a longer period then scanning and reporting takes lot of time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It scans all the devices and assess the vulnerabilities related to the devices as it helps indentifying vulnerabilities it prevents system at risk regularly.
It is very user friendly product
What do you like best about the product?
Its user friendly and very easy to use and good
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing dislike about the products its good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is very useful in vulnerability detection and scanning
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What do you like best about the product?
1. Portability: Install on Laptop and use any where required.
2.Quick: Quickly completes scan.
3.Easy to use.
4. Cost effective.
2.Quick: Quickly completes scan.
3.Easy to use.
4. Cost effective.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lesser options for reports and dashboards.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I Lead internal IT Audits in organization. Nessus beeing portable, quick and easy is best suits for me in performing vulnerabiliry scanning in different zones / Subnets.
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