Nessus (BYOL)
Tenable, Inc. | 10.8.3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20240903 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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.
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Overall Experience
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to use, versatile, flexible, and it is very secure
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface can be complex and not very intuitive. Limited Reporting capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security vulnerabilities discovery, Compliance, Security posture.
Nessus Review
What do you like best about the product?
It provides a quick and detailed results
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't very much supports web application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides detailed information of the security risks about the system.
Tool provides more insight about the vulnerabilities across environment
What do you like best about the product?
It provides each and every vulnerabities Found on the devices and gives more visibility towards fixing on the flaws found
What do you dislike about the product?
Frequent upgrade to be required , some times getting delay on updating trending security landscape .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It gives attention to close the vulnerabilities on priority wise to workaround to close the patch /upgrades .
Nessus Review for Server Vulnerabilities and Device Baselines
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus has provided a lot of help in determining new and current Common Vulnerabilities and Exploits (CVE) to both on-prem and cloud-based servers. It boosted the security posture of these in-scope IT assets and helped in updating the versions of the apps and platforms in it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much. Report types may be improved and contents can be consolidated better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Baselining the network, platforms, and hardware devices ensures that we are following the best practices. Nessus helps us achieve it through one of its features.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nessus is like a de-facto standard for your vulnerability scanning needs. Allocate time to know the features so you can maximize them.
Over 15 years experience with Tenable Nessus
What do you like best about the product?
I love the fact that the Nessus product tells you if the discovered vulnerability is exploitable, and if so by what tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the reporting tool was more robust. As it stands, now I export the Nessus scan database and use a Perl script to parse the data into a custom CSV file.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tenable cuts down the time it takes to evaluate a network for vulnerability and potential attack paths
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nessus Professional is great for consulting as they do not charge by IP Address like with their IO product.
Almost perfect
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that you can set diferentes scans at the same time, and the database for vulnerability updates fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have to change to classic layout a lot some options are not easy to find in the new layout, PCI ASV in particular
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are required to have inter vulnerability scans l.
Wonderful Vulnerability Analysis tool specially for Network and Host vulnerability analysis
What do you like best about the product?
this is the best and 100% accurate acutomatic tool for network and host vulnerability assessment tool. it's a very easy and useful tool for finding any loophole in the network and host with a minimal false-positive result.
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing to dislike about this tools but the only thing is that it takes some time to give result because they scan every vulnerability so its take time otherwise it works well and gives a very accurate result.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use this tool for my day-to-day client site project and use this tool to find vulnerabilities in the network and endpoints (host). and solve very complex vulnerabilities in less time and secure my client's infrastructure from hackers.
Gui and operational
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, attractive GUI, scanning for web application,api and network infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Delayed in query from their end if we do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VA and Compliance scanning of Network infrastructure and web application
Recommendations to others considering the product:
8 out of 10
good tool really helps in scanning domains and find vulnerability.
What do you like best about the product?
Plug in details are complete and helpful to mitigate the issues. its results are very satisfactory and really better tool than other competitors. it aslo helps to find out solutions for the vulnerability. By the use of this tool i saved many customers from critical vulnerabilities. Suggested solutions based on tool results to the developer teams. it can also scan networks and find out security problems their.
What do you dislike about the product?
for lage scan , sometimes it slowdown. that should be improved. GUI interface should be improved. And some more features needs to be added. tools should have updates more frequently. some more features related to network security should be added. that will help users to solve problems easily.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it helps me to scan websites and find out vulnerabilities. It also tell md the severity of bug. so i can decidethe priority to resolve highest problematic first. For many websites i found critical and normal vulnerabilities and solved by help of nezsuss and other tools. it save time and provide good results. it have a good and easy graphical interface that helps to a beginner to use thos tool for their purposes.
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