Likelihood to Recommend DS is fantastic for big and large-medium companies, it has many very featured functions and works very well. It's a little bit expensive for small and little-medium companies.
Read full review Nessus is perfectly suitable for performing comprehensive vulnerability assessment scans being a vulnerability scanner. It is less appropriate for performing penetration testing since it is not a penetration testing tool, it does not have the ability and modules to exploit the vulnerabilities of the system.
Read full review Pros We found company emails used for personal uses. We found internal documents in deep web. We found news and information about the company managers on social media not delivered by the company. Read full review With Nessus we can find the missing critical patches for a server or workstations. Nessus points out any vulnerable or outdated software Technologies used in the system, thus eliminating any chances for security flaws being turned up. Nessus typically points any configuration level issues in accordance with the OWASP guidelines. Even the configuration of SSL related which are most of the time handled by some vendors or 3rd parties. Nessus not only lists out these Vulnerabilities but describes clearly the vulnerabilities in details with its thousands of plugins updated regularly, the tool also recommends solution with practical details of easy implementation. Read full review Cons I'd like to have still more features for searching on social media. I'd like to have a better interface for configuration. It's expensive for middle and small companies, I'd like to have a reduced-features version for them. Read full review Could use an upgrade within reports. Scans can take a long time to complete. Have to break them down in small sections. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Solved the problems of my customers and permitted to clearly demonstrate these problems to management.
Read full review Nessus is best and easy to use application for Vulnerabilities finding and reporting, it has multiple platforms and wide scope covering almost all devices for security improvement so far, thus we are very likely to continue its services.
Read full review Usability It's very easy to use, also non-technical users can understand the information to use for search and results, initial configuration is less easy to configure but just a little.
Read full review It's very much a plug and play application that the user can go into with limited knowledge and set-up scans in minutes.
Read full review Support Rating They are very available and competent, in addition, they used people with a good knowledge of the Italian language that helped very much, especially with the first customer.
Read full review I haven't needed to contact support yet. But issues are easily solved with a quick internet search which means support and by extension, the larger community are involved and knowledgeable.
Read full review Implementation Rating As I said: ease of use, scanningg of deep web and social media, results easy to understand and use.
Read full review Alternatives Considered The other product didn't have searches on Social Media.
Read full review Sometimes when we identify a vulnerability with Nessus that has an exploit, we made a proof of concept with
Metasploit in order to show to the IT managers the importance of the software/hardware hardening.
Read full review Return on Investment DS gave more visibility on the company cyber exposure. Results of DS searches helped to solve security holes in people's behaviour. Company management reached more awareness about company cyber exposure. Read full review Nessus certainly has a positive impact while me while performing my job, either as security research, or performing vulnerability assessments for clients. It gives a lot of information about the system/application after performing scans. The number of false positives is also less compared to other vulnerability scanners. The professional edition is very useful as policy templates available in this edition are very handy and useful even to perform compliance scan like PCI DSS scan. Also, the ability to export the scan results into reports in formats like HTML, PDF is very useful which could be for performing system/application reviews. Read full review ScreenShots