Nessus (BYOL)
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Director of IT/Operations
What do you like best about the product?
Real-Time vulnerability check and sensitive data searches
What do you dislike about the product?
Plugins and using reports are a bit challenging.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Primarily for security compliance
Great Product
What do you like best about the product?
I like the user friendliness of the interface
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm not sure I like the new vulnerability grouping that shows for each host (purple color)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We mostly use Nessus to see what known security patches have not been applied yet. This allows us to enforce patching of all systems (Windows and Linux). This has allowed us to have a monthly dashboard highlighting vulnerable systems and has enabled us to ensure that all systems have all known security patches within a 60 day window.
Fantastic Vulnerability Scanner
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the simplicity of the readout from the vulnerability scanner
What do you dislike about the product?
Unfortunately, the only thing I had an issue with was the pricing model. It is priced lower than most, but I am working in a non profit organization where budget is extremely tight.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerability of business systems
Recommendations to others considering the product:
n/a
Nessus Pro/Manager on-prem review
What do you like best about the product?
Configuration is simple. There aren't a ton of little-used features crowding UIs. Scans are fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some plugins are still validating CVE resolution by looking for daemon banner version #s. With a lot of linux distros, the banner versions never line up with the backported security patches. Thus, some packages will seem vulnerable for months and months even though the vendor has patched the CVE.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Infrastructure vulnerability scans
Nessus is Cool
What do you like best about the product?
Good detection capabilities. Easy to understand results.
What do you dislike about the product?
The removal of the API and multi-users in Nessus Pro.
Starting to get a little messy with where plug-ins are grouped.
Starting to get a little messy with where plug-ins are grouped.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerability scanning.
Nessus Keeps Us Safe
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus is easy to use and scans for a large number of vulnerabilities. It helps us to keep one step ahead.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial install of Nessus tends to be a little slow when downloading and compiling plugins. Other than that once the product is up and running everything is good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Nessus to perform daily scans. It helps us stay on top of new and existing vulnerabilities as well as identify any patching issues that may have been overlooked.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Buy it and use it daily.
Positive Experience
What do you like best about the product?
- Security Center's ease of use while providing useful information.
- Interface is very user friendly
- Updating policies and scans are simple
- Creating queries is extremely easy
- Interface is very user friendly
- Updating policies and scans are simple
- Creating queries is extremely easy
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, there isn't much I don't like. I've been very pleased with Nessus overall. My only complaint is with the detection of the HSTS plugin (84502). It is something we are audited on and it simply never goes away without manual intervention. It be great to see this work better.
- Creating reports can be very time consuming and difficult. They're not bad, it just takes a lot of back and forth to make sure you are getting the data you need displayed in a manner that makes sense.
- Creating reports can be very time consuming and difficult. They're not bad, it just takes a lot of back and forth to make sure you are getting the data you need displayed in a manner that makes sense.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deprecated protocols and services. Additionally, able to scan systems for baseline configurations and ensure they within compliance
Recommendations to others considering the product:
SecurityCenter makes your job in Security much easier, the interfaces are great and the reports are excellent to provide to upper management. As we know, management loves graphs.
One of the betters scanners
What do you like best about the product?
Customizing scan plugins with NASL and being able to scan multiple systems at once
What do you dislike about the product?
The removal of the API from non .io and SecurityCenter versions. While pulling reports is still available, not being able to automate things is a pain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerability scanning of assets prior to placing on the network and monthly policy directed scans for compliance
nessus review
What do you like best about the product?
testing features of the network scanner. especially advanced scan tools
What do you dislike about the product?
slows down when running multiple tests at the same time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
securing internal and external networks
Nessus Vuln Scanner Review
What do you like best about the product?
features are easy to view access to set scan parameters
What do you dislike about the product?
takes a lot of system resources. while running more than one scan in parallel there is a delay in progress. sometimes for a long time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
vulnerability testing to secure client networks
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