Nessus (BYOL)
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Solid product for security and compliance
What do you like best about the product?
The job scheduling features make it easy for me to run scans quarterly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, I feel it is a little slow with the scans, the machine is pretty robust that we run it on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compliance issues with ISO and SOC
Great Pro tool for scannig
What do you like best about the product?
Variety of tools, not only vulnerabilities, compliance scans as well
What do you dislike about the product?
Price, it would be great that this can be modular so price can be less
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps a lot with our PCI-DSS audits
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Buy it !!
SQL Developer
What do you like best about the product?
Slick UI, export to Excel option is great for data management
What do you dislike about the product?
We do weekly scans and false positives in general around Windows 10 are a bit annoying. Tenable is pretty quick to update their plugins however.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Find out of compliance machines for security patching, other new issues we didn't know about.
Straight forward and easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
Important information readily accessible from reports and thus easy for management to read. Flexible scanning options and easy to passively scan many test VMs under development.
What do you dislike about the product?
No multi-year discount for contracts. 2 or 3 year contract is the same price/yr
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerability scanning with an industry standard tool. Customers recognize and accept Nessus as part of our cybersecurity program.
A big part of the toolkit for Vulnerability assessments
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus has gathered a wide range of templates and policies to help conduct and track Vulnerability assessments.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't think there is really anything on this list.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to show how we measure up against industry standards.
Industry standard for a reason
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus is the standard for a reason - it's flexible, extensible, and well supported. The plugin update system works silently and flawlessly, and helps us not have to write our own scripts constantly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The recent changes to move on-prem scanners to a single user and remove API functionality has been super challenging.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving for risk analysis and patch compliance with Nessus. Automating the scans and having the ability to write our own compliance module has made it super easy to spot trends and get accurate remediation plans drawn up.
Nessus is a great tool for vulnerability scanning
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus is a pretty good and easy tool to use. It offers a variety of ways to scan for the latest vulnerabilities and also lots of reports for all of your needs. Also another important asset of Nessus is that if the program crashes for any reason, there is a knowledge base with the answers.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't really have much I dislike. Only thing is possibly add more reporting features and ways to fix the problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am trying to use Nessus to satisfy PCI requirements on a quarterly basis. It also assist us in finding out internal vulnerabilities.
Good Product has a couple of shortcomings.
What do you like best about the product?
Cheap, effective, quick to set up and easy to use
What do you dislike about the product?
The policy section defining custom policies can be cumbersome and not as intuitive as it should be. Would like to be able to search for plugins in the policies section, and not to have to scroll through thousands of plugins to find the correct one. Troubleshooting is problematic, and support tends to be slow because of the online chat feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerability scans for reporting to federal government
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would definitely recommend it for quick set up and ease of use. Free version is a good way to go to evaluate the product.
Nessus is the gold standard for vulnerability scanning.
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus offers great support for the platform and the documentation is thorough for an easy implementation and configuration.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing model has changed and some features now require a larger financial commitment or maintaining older versions, which is obviously not desirable for a security and compliance tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus allows us to set and forget the majority of our vulnerability scans and provides all the details we need to ensure our environments are not opening drastic new security holes. This allows us to focus on more critical security issues, while also maintaining our compliance information without user interaction.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely read the documentation before you get started, it will save a lot of time and make sure everything is configured correctly.
Enterprise User
What do you like best about the product?
The Nessus web interface is very intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much to dislike in Nessus today.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Discovery, vulnerability, and compliance scanning.
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