Nessus (BYOL)
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Tenable Nessus professional
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus has one of the largest libraries of vulnerability and configuration checks, covering a wide range of systems, devices, and applications.
Despite its comprehensive feature set, Nessus is known for its user-friendly interface, which can help users get up and running quickly.
Despite its comprehensive feature set, Nessus is known for its user-friendly interface, which can help users get up and running quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Nessus is known for its comprehensive vulnerability scanning capabilities, it can sometimes produce false positives, which can lead to unnecessary work for security teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus provides comprehensive visibility into vulnerabilities across an organization's entire IT environment, which can help security teams prioritize remediation efforts and reduce risk.
Nessus is one of the powerful tool in scanning vulnerabilities.
What do you like best about the product?
The format of the report with vulnerabilities and it's associated CVE with a detailed explanation is really commendable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The limited availability of features in a free Nessus software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Unlike other scanning tools like nmap, nessus provides a detailed view of vulnerabilities with a risk score and methods to exploit. It also outlines the exact service where the vulnerability is found.
Best free to use vulnerability scanner
What do you like best about the product?
-Free to use
-Has community version where you can use Nessus for free to some extent
-Great user interface
-It also identifies miscofinguration in code
-Versatile tool
-Great dashboards and reporting mechanism
-Has community version where you can use Nessus for free to some extent
-Great user interface
-It also identifies miscofinguration in code
-Versatile tool
-Great dashboards and reporting mechanism
What do you dislike about the product?
-I have only used free community version and it has quite a few limitation with number of hosts and scans etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have used Nessus in past for red teaming and penitration testing puposes in past. it really helps in discovering vulnerabilities at early stage. It also provides detailed vulnerability analysis and reports which can be used be for pathcing the same. It has very clean dashboard that makes it very easy to present the current status of vulenrability to the management,
"Nessus review - One of the best tool for on-prem VM"
What do you like best about the product?
I think Nessus is a best and versatile vulnerability assessment tool that helps organizations to manage their security risks. With comprehensive coverage, advanced scanning techniques, it provides accurate vulnerability detection.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus in the Pro version is limited to one user. Not follow up or comparison between latest scan and recent."
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Nessus for On-Prem Vulnerability management it fulfills our requirements.
One stop solution for Vulnerability Detection and Management
What do you like best about the product?
1. Detection capabilities are quite good in comparison to number of other similar solutions.
2. Easy to navigate and use GUI.
3. Most important, their plugin repo is always to the mark and updated, which help detects critical vulnerability without significant delays.
2. Easy to navigate and use GUI.
3. Most important, their plugin repo is always to the mark and updated, which help detects critical vulnerability without significant delays.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Nothing as such to complain of, as the major purpose is being handled in very efficient way, though scan time and results sometimes remain inconsistent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Detecting vulnerabilties(network based or system based) across organisation and help us indetify potential backdoor/loopwholes in the environment, patvhing them on time help us save from malicious adversaries.
Leading and best vulnerability scanning tool
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.
Nessus pro
What do you like best about the product?
Able to scan any type of device with IP.
What do you dislike about the product?
We canot do Mobile applications testing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Based on our scanning it scans all devices and give vulnerability assessment report. It gives more visibility to our management to keep our environment hardening from security branch.
Nessus - scans network very effectively
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus provides very comprehensive scanning of vulnerabilities and port scanning.
It can scan various devices ranging from endpoints to network devices. It's report generation is quite good.
It can scan various devices ranging from endpoints to network devices. It's report generation is quite good.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes lots of system resources, and requires agents in endpoints for full scanning capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerable system detection and requirements of patching.
Tenable Nessus Review
What do you like best about the product?
The Advance scan functionality is best and does a deep scan and it is more in depth than a normal scan.
What do you dislike about the product?
Most of its features will be locked for normal public and it doesnot even comes with a professional suite .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It does an automatic scan of infrastructure and scan like a pro and saves lots of time wasted in manual scanning.
Nessus Scanner
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus Scanner was an awesome tool which helped develop security posture if my organisation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of now to dislike. It comes with all the modules loaded
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were trying to improve the security posture if our organisation and nessus helped us in improving the same by showing us the vulnerable devices and apps.
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