Sold by: Tenable, Inc.
Nessus provides vulnerability analysis, patch confirmation, configuration assessment, and sensitive data identification for EC2 environments and instances.
Sold by: Tenable, Inc.
Overview
Nessus is the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Trusted by more than 27,000 organizations worldwide, Nessus provides vulnerability analysis, patch confirmation, configuration assessment, and sensitive data identification for EC2 environments and instances. With a continuously updated library of more than 109,000 plugins, Nessus delivers the most in-depth coverage and accuracy to the marketplace.
Highlights
- Prevent attacks by identifying vulnerabilities in the attack surface, allowing IT professionals to mitigate them before attacks occur
- Leverage policy creation wizards and scan scheduling for easy configuration and management
- Ensure ongoing vulnerability and IT asset coverage with daily updates
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Operating system
AmazonLinux 20240903
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Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases
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Pricing
Pricing and entitlements for this product are managed outside of AWS Marketplace through an external billing relationship between you and the vendor. You activate the product by supplying an existing license purchased outside of AWS Marketplace, while AWS provides the infrastructure required to launch the product. Subscriptions have no end date and may be cancelled any time. However, the cancellation won't affect the status of an active license if it was purchased outside of AWS Marketplace.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
No refunds
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
Once the instance is running, point your browser to https://<instance>:8834/, where <instance> is either the fully qualified domain name or IP address of the instance.
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Support
Vendor support
24 hours/day, 365 days/yr https://community.tenable.com/
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AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Hospitality
Leading and best vulnerability scanning tool
Reviewed on Sep 22, 2023
Review provided by G2
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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Felipe R.
Overall Experience
Reviewed on Jun 22, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to use, versatile, flexible, and it is very secure
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface can be complex and not very intuitive. Limited Reporting capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security vulnerabilities discovery, Compliance, Security posture.
Civic & Social Organization
Nessus Review
Reviewed on Aug 21, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It provides a quick and detailed results
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't very much supports web application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides detailed information of the security risks about the system.
Information Technology and Services
Tool provides more insight about the vulnerabilities across environment
Reviewed on Aug 17, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It provides each and every vulnerabities Found on the devices and gives more visibility towards fixing on the flaws found
What do you dislike about the product?
Frequent upgrade to be required , some times getting delay on updating trending security landscape .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It gives attention to close the vulnerabilities on priority wise to workaround to close the patch /upgrades .
Justin P.
Nessus Review for Server Vulnerabilities and Device Baselines
Reviewed on Jun 14, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus has provided a lot of help in determining new and current Common Vulnerabilities and Exploits (CVE) to both on-prem and cloud-based servers. It boosted the security posture of these in-scope IT assets and helped in updating the versions of the apps and platforms in it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much. Report types may be improved and contents can be consolidated better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Baselining the network, platforms, and hardware devices ensures that we are following the best practices. Nessus helps us achieve it through one of its features.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nessus is like a de-facto standard for your vulnerability scanning needs. Allocate time to know the features so you can maximize them.