Nessus (BYOL)
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Best Security Scanner.
What do you like best about the product?
Nesus professional is all in one tool it's having multiple options for scanning the security stuff like servers, firewall, network, web applications and hardware devices. It's provide accurate results of the scanning. and screenshot we will not provide its against company policy.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's take more time to update. Compare to other scanning tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can scan multiple system during same tims. So it's very useful for us and it provide the good results with any format of report.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Work on updates.
Excellent for Vulnerability Scanning.
What do you like best about the product?
Best for Vulnerability Scanning on any server and have best support from tenable.
It's updated with most recent attacks Vulnerability plugins.
It's updated with most recent attacks Vulnerability plugins.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing to be a disadvantage, but can be more better in future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Patching with new patches for any new Vulnerability found on any server.
Vulnerability assessment is really easy with Nessus
What do you like best about the product?
Great tool with an easy User interface. There are plenty of training materials for this tool. Tester can do discovery of networks along with port scans. At the end of the test can export detailed reports along with remediation steps.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus credentialed scans take lot of time to setup & the process is hectic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
New & existing vulnerabilities can be found easily using this tool. We get help from the detailed report which is provided by this tool to address those vulnerabilities. This makes our organizations risk factor to low. Which means it lowers the chance of getting hacked in the wild. This ensure our company is not an easy target for hackers and malicious vectors.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go for this tool. Really worth it for the money you are spending
IT Professional using Nessus
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus is an easy to use tool that doesnt require years of expertise to be able to run and understand how to conduct vulnerability scans. It is a tool that does great with customization and I love that it can operate on multiple platforms, which is very help in a large enterprise. I like that Nessus comes with Security Center, which handles network monitoring and vulnerability management in a dashboard manner and SCCV, which detects vulnerabilities in real time
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus could provide more in their reports after a vulnerability scan is complete. Other scanning tools provide more insightful reports on what was identified during the scan. It would be nice if Nessus was an IPS instead of an IDS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerability scanning, vulnerability detection, insider threat, network monitoring, and vulnerability and network management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to use tool for vulnerability scanning and network monitoring. Pricing is great compared to similar products on the market
Easy to use, reliable, and up to date.
What do you like best about the product?
It works, and it works well. I like that it's updated daily with new signature and vulnerabilities. It's incredibly easy to get a pre-configured scan started, and just as easy to automate it. I like the granularity that you can configure scans with. The reporting features are great, but we export the reports to a vuln manager.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be kind of confusing unless you can figure out their menus and terminology. It is also sometimes quite slow without easily being able to access a verbose log of what's going on. There are also some features that are shown but not included on the current platform, only if you migrate to Tenable.io.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Nessus for server security auditing and assessing. We have scheduled scans to alert us of any new vulnerabilities in our systems, as well as for patch auditing.
Nessus - Protection against all types of vulnerabilities.
What do you like best about the product?
Strong and deep scanning, against all types of threats that may affect the vulnerability of any of the services we are running, this security system, has an advanced detection of hacker attacks of all kinds, the updates are constant and automatic, plus if you wish it can be updated manually, in case of finding any vulnerability that the tool has not detected due to any lack of update, it is an exception, but the possibility of doing so exists, something I like very much are the notifications, that really they have importance, since they warn of some type of vulnerability that may exist in the network, and this system warns you before it can touch you, to update the databases, and have a protection against these attacks, which are just emerging.
What do you dislike about the product?
The creation of reports from the analysis performed, lacks necessary data, to perform a deeper analysis of how to detect and prevent some incidents of this type, would like to obtain much more detailed reports, where each vulnerability is detailed, with statistical data, possible origin of the vulnerability, and recommendations, of blockages for this type of vulnerability.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Thanks to this tool we can execute a complete analysis of our teams, and detect vulnerabilities that day by day come to light, hackers are always developing new ways to attack all types of companies, and try to access their information, to perform all kinds of damages, Nessus is that counterpart, which is always being updated constantly, to go one step ahead of these scammers.
Vulnerability and remediation management
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus offers enormous flexibility in how it tracks vulnerabilities across the network. The scan is multiplatform, it can be executed in local, network objectives or as an agent. You can launch the scan from outside the firewall, which offers the real visibility of the company. The implementation and configuration of Nessus is very simple, we like to use the agents to create groups of scans and in this way automate the process. Everything works very well and the creation of reports is perfect to keep track of remediations. I like that we can do the compliance analyzes.
What do you dislike about the product?
We had a problem with a client where the requirements to deploy Nessus could not be applied, the Tenable team has not yet been able to give us a strong response to resolve the situation. The information provided to perform the remediation is not the best possible, I would like to improve on new updates a better tool for this. The automatic updates of the supplements should be more consecutive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Nessus we carry out the vulnerability and compliance scan, to then carry out the remediation cycles in our clients' networks. With Tenable's enormous base of knowledge and threats, we make sure to attend to every detail that could be a cause of attack on the network. Thanks to the agents we can also evaluate the host in particular to have a more granular scheme..
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend Nessus and Tenable because with them we have been able to establish an important service within our company. It is an excellent tool to scan objectives and present reports.
Nessus scanning
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus scanning in and of itself is rather simple. It is nice that debugging is built in to the gui and logs can be easily retrieved. Nessus is definitely best when deployed with Security Center.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the logic built in to the Cisco handler didnt make sense. When the logic was presented with a #, it wouldn't issue the enable password required for escalation. Getting the logic fixed for this issue took over 9 months to resolve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This tool replaced McAfee vulnerability management and was a much more solid tool comparatively speaking.
Nessus is a top tier scanner that is easy to use and effective at finding vulnerabilities.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. The application is easy to setup and use with canned templates that get you scanning for what you need to find. The scan results are among the most accurate I have seen which is welcome in this day and age.
What do you dislike about the product?
The scan results could be easier to read. Sometimes I find the scan results to be a bit difficult to read with the current setup. However after you play around with the settings a little and get used to the format it is not an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For me vulnerability threat management and tracking installed patches is the primary use of Nessus. The benefits of using Nessus is getting a well priced top tier application for a fair price.
Nessus works well
What do you like best about the product?
The amount/variety of plugins that cover just about everything you need to scan for, both new/0 day threats and past.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting could be better in Nessus Pro (I don't have exposure to other levels to see if there is better reporting)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making sure systems are updated with the necessary patches. A nice benefit is seeing the biggest bang for our buck (deploy one patch will fix 80% of critical issues for example)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure the reporting matches your needs, otherwise it's great
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