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Tenable Nessus

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What is Tenable Nessus?

Tenable headquartered in Columbia offers Nessus, a vulnerability scanning and security assessment solution used to analyze an entity's security posture, vulnerability testing, and provide configuration assessments.

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Accurate Vulnerability Scans: Many users have praised Nessus for its ability to perform accurate vulnerability scans and provide precise …
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Nessus

9 out of 10
January 30, 2020
Incentivized
We use Nessus within our information security department to scan our network for vulnerabilities. Afterwards we ensure to patch the …
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Pricing

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1 Year

$2,790.00

Cloud

1 Year + Advanced Support

$3,190.00

Cloud

2 Years

$5,440.00

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Tenable Nessus?

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Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Tenable headquartered in Columbia offers Nessus, a vulnerability scanning and security assessment solution used to analyze an entity's security posture, vulnerability testing, and provide configuration assessments.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.1.

The most common users of Tenable Nessus are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Community Insights

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Accurate Vulnerability Scans: Many users have praised Nessus for its ability to perform accurate vulnerability scans and provide precise findings. They have found it to be reliable in identifying vulnerabilities and delivering accurate assessments.

Multiple Profiles/Policies: Several reviewers appreciate that Nessus offers multiple profiles/policies for different types of scans, such as PCI-DSS, malware, web application, and bad shell shock detection scans. This flexibility allows users to tailor their scanning approach based on specific needs and compliance requirements.

Risk-based Classification: Users value the fact that Nessus classifies vulnerabilities into risk-based categories, ranging from critical to informational. This feature helps prioritize remediation efforts by focusing on the most severe vulnerabilities first. It sets Nessus apart from other vulnerability scanners that may not offer this level of categorization.

Restrictions in Free Version: Some users have mentioned that the free version of Nessus has limitations, such as not allowing internal/external PCI scan policies and config audits. This has been considered a drawback by several reviewers.

Expensive Professional Version: Several users have suggested adding additional features to the free version of Nessus, as they find the professional version to be expensive and not cost-friendly for everyone.

Difficult Progress Tracking: Users have found it difficult to track the progress of a scan as the tool sometimes fails to show the in-between completion percentage. Improving the way scan status is displayed has been recommended by some reviewers.

Users highly recommend purchasing Nessus Professional for various purposes including consulting, vulnerability analysis, testing, network analysis, and development. They believe it is the industry standard for scanning vulnerabilities and offers detailed scanning capabilities with the latest security updates and vulnerabilities scans. However, they suggest that it may not be suitable for smaller enterprises. Users find Nessus Professional to be a great tool for vulnerability assessment with an easy-to-use interface, making it ideal for beginners in testing. They strongly recommend it for vulnerability scanning and securing against threats. Some users mention a lack of Indian support but still recommend using Nessus Professional to scan servers as it helps satisfy client demands, find vulnerabilities, and provide application remediation. They advise all professionals in information security, particularly IS teams, to use Nessus Professional. Users caution against generating advanced reports without tailoring single server reports first and suggest checking the reporting aspect thoroughly. To better address risk remediation, users recommend thoroughly reviewing scans and learning each vulnerability. While users appreciate the high performance and functionality of Nessus Professional, they find the default reports insufficient and custom report generation difficult. For performing PCI assessments, users consider Nessus Professional a great product that is easy to implement and use as a good appliance. Some users also recommend using other Tenable products for vulnerability scanning and configuration compliance monitoring. Users propose adding options to identify vulnerability issues by level of importance in Nessus Professional but generally agree that it does a good job finding and identifying vulnerabilities. They suggest using SecurityCenter for easier security management and great reports. Users highlight the need for improved requirements when running authenticated scans and recommend conducting multiple scans to ensure accurate results since false positives can occur at times. Overall, users recommend using Nessus Professional for experienced cybersecurity professionals to identify vulnerabilities in systems.

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Score 9 out of 10
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Our company personnel are mostly depending on Nessus for performing vulnerability assessment on servers and Network Devices of clients, most of our clients are banking networks, government bodies looking for securing their networks and compliance in accordance with information security standards. Nessus is very advanced tool for mainly highlighting server's configuration level, software level issues and missing security patches and for network devices it lists any configuration issues, outdated practice or patches required for improvement of information security.
  • 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.
  • The tool has lots of options for setting up before scanning any device, this methodology could be simplified further with default configuration for various devices predefined, anyhow we can use this technique by making use of policies.
  • For advanced users we cannot disable the plugins inside the plugin groups, we can enable the whole set of plugins at a time, for few hundreds its ok, but thousands of plugins are of waste of resource and time.
Nessus is quite suitable foe any network devices like switches, routers, firewalls or proxy, for different servers also the tool is very operable, it has plugins for almost every operating system and managed devices, only thing is before using on to the intended device the tool should be updated which takes much time to compile plugins.
  • Very positive, infact most of our work is dependent on Nessus tool for consulting best practices to organizations with computer and information technology operations.
Overall Nessus tool is very useful for any organization with involvement of information technology for keeping their Technologies updated to the best level of security and secure thier practices of the same.
Though we didn't needed the support from nessus team directly, but the Nessus community has answers to all our questions or issues faced by us can be easily resolved with proper addressing and understanding in no time.
Nessus is standard vulnerabilities assessment tool, i would recommend for mid or higher level organization to have their personalised tool from Nessus for day to day managing of their network security with continuous improvements.
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Network security consulting for various business sectors like banking, egovernance, marketing etc,.
Anyone who has understanding of application installations and system configuration can support for Nessus workflow.
  • Servers internal level configuration issues have been identified and fixed
  • Regular missing patches check being performed
  • Application level issues have been reported, like multiple Vulnerabilities of older version applications
  • We make use of the product for multiple platforms by integrating it into a single VM.
  • We are currently making use of Nessus for almost all types of computer and network devices, to go on further any newer operating systems of linux based develops we'll include those plugins for respective vulnerability Assessment
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.
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  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
  • Analyst Reports
  • Third-party Reviews
The product features are vivid and covers most of our needs during assessment so far, the application usage was also familiar with our organization decision makers.
I would recommend Nessus to use if i started to evaluate again, because of its features and so much of reputation and community vide scope.
  • Perform Servers Scan, windows preferably
  • Running automated scans on network devices
  • Some older switches are difficult to configure for credentialed scans
  • Proxy servers credentialed scan takes peculiar configuration knowledge for right scan
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