Nessus (BYOL)
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Makes finding vulnerabilities a breeze
What do you like best about the product?
We use it to find vulnerabilities with primarily Windows Servers. It does a great job of finding missing patches and missing settings to enable some of those patches.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus Manager is not good for larger teams needing to manage scan definitions. It is also needs significant customization for doing compliance scans.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it primarily to uncover problems with our patch management processes.
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What do you like best about the product?
We can automate it and use it with our CI to produce potential candidate vulnerabilities. It finds many potential issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Several of the issues NESSUS finds are really low probability issues for us, so we end up chasing things we really would not have to look at.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WE are using it daily to pre-identify potential security issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Perhaps tune it to have options to identify vulnerability issues by level of importance.
Nessus does the job
What do you like best about the product?
Easy navigation of Nessus interface. Scans on demand or scheduled.
Easy setup of the software, with intuitive design of scans, including creating your own specialized or custom scans
Easy setup of the software, with intuitive design of scans, including creating your own specialized or custom scans
What do you dislike about the product?
Numerous false positive found. Sometimes dependent on server usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping PCI compliance by identifying assets with vulnerabilities, and recommended remediation
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Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nessus does a good job finding and identifying vulnerabilities for remediation.
Exceptional product
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus gives clear and concise explanations of the findings and links how to resolve them
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the wording sometimes I find it hard to figure which system is having the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have passed major government audits using nesses.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Well rounded products and you get out what you put into it.
Powerful and comprehensive vulnerability scanner
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy the thoroughness of Nessus and the ability to customize scanned plugin definitions.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not always the easiest to find particular settings within Nessus. Not impossible, but you have to dig a little.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus has assisted us with remaining PCI compliant for 9 years straight, and helps us catch vulnerabilities that we would otherwise never have seen.
Nessus Scanner
What do you like best about the product?
Network Scanner is good.
Delivers good quality and accurate vulnerabilities.
Overall good tool.
Delivers good quality and accurate vulnerabilities.
Overall good tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Webapp scanner need improvement it need lots of information to run an authenticated scan.
In Network I believe new scripts needs to be added as per new upcoming vulnerabilities in the industry
In Network I believe new scripts needs to be added as per new upcoming vulnerabilities in the industry
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scanning is done good and accurate reports
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Improve requirements to use run a scan, in authenticated scans it need s a lot of options required
Nessus is an smart tool for vulnerability scanning
What do you like best about the product?
It supports customizable dashboard, reports and ticketing system. Nessus will assist us focus on critical issues in advance.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing dislike up to now and Nessus great tool for vulnerability scanning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus still functioned off as an observed deployment, & a much more thinking-out implementing proposal would also have been easier.
Future of Cyber Security Suite
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the Nessus because of its excellent coverage; its final results provides almost every details like vulnerability brief, its exploits, references and such other important matters to be dealt with the vulnerability fix.
What do you dislike about the product?
The customer support of Nessus is limited as compared to its wide customer base all over the world. So customer support of Nessus needs to be improved from the view point of its availability.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
An experience with Nessus started with questions like whether this tool will be helpful, will it give expected results, whether........ and yes, this tool has given satisfied results to put a forward step for secured information system environment. For detailed results provided by Nessus I would say in brief that "It just worked flawlessly to deal with the vulnerabilities".
Nessus, a necessity for datacenter
What do you like best about the product?
I like most that the recommendation/Solution present in the Nessus scan report. if it is not present, we need to troubleshoot things very deeply that can delay in Timelines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I feel when the disk Space got full where we installed Nessus, We must get any message/notification. It happens once with me and not able to figure out what actually happens why reports are generated blank, but later we figured out this and deleted old reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It happens once with me and not able to figure out what actually happens why reports are generated blank, but later we figured out this and deleted old reports.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it... it will give you a complete Report of yours Server So that we can make our server hard to security threats.
Best Network Vulnerability Scanning Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Nexus is one of the best vulnerability scanners in the market it has so many features for web application security scans, network scans, compliance scans and external vulnerability scans it has a great Vulnerability detection rate and best for security testers so easily find vulnerabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
I couldn't find any big weakness in Nessus, but if the Nessus team can improve web application scan functions for finding some deep vulnerabilities it will be great for customers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm using Nessus to test the internal and External and internal Vulnerability assessments and the compliance reviews of the devices.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Essential tool for Security testers, the price is higher compared to other products, but it gives maximum return for your investment.
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