Nessus (BYOL)
Tenable, Inc. | 10.8.3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20240903 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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A perfectly managing vulnerability assessment tools.
What do you like best about the product?
We have been using Nessus for few years. One of the most using vulnerability assessment tool. Nessus is easy to learn and use. It provides in-depth scanning facilities. It identifies vulnerabilities quickly and provides possible actions we can take. Also possible to schedule our scans. Many scan types are pre-loaded such as dynamic scans, network scans, host discovery, malware scans. There are many plugins available. Nessus has an extensive reporting feature and provides features to customize it. There are many pre-loaded policies and templates.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus professional license cost is quite high. Not perfectly working with Web application vulnerability testing. We had few issues when configuring Nessus.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Nessus we can identify vulnerabilities and configure issues in the network and it provides possible actions we can take. Also provides detailed reports about issues. So it helps us to analyse the incident.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend this software for every Information security professionals.
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Best automated vulnerability scanner
What do you like best about the product?
Tenable Nessus interested in evaluating for vulnerability scanning around our perimeter as well as our Cloud services. Nessus's capabilities to be robust and the reporting very clear for the on Premises infrastructure, the Cloud infrastructures, web based systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
With all features licensing cost is high.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Tenable Nessus for comprehensive scans and reporting, for system audits and test the web based applications and web sites. Easy to start from basic level scan and get into a more complex scan.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
All the features and services work greatly ideal tool for system auditors and VAPT testers.
Automated Vulnerability and Audit tool
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus have many plugins available for scan the various vulnerabilities.Its ability to scan static and dynamic asset lists is great including Windows, Linux servers, data base as well. It can schedule recurring scan jobs is helpful and aids in the scanning of systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Licencing cost is high with all the features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have using Nessus for Scan, Audit VM based and standalone servers and data bases including Windows and Linux as well. Also using Nessus easily we can find out vulnerabilities and then we reduce the time spent on finding them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is fully automated vulnerability scanner.
Best solution for Vulnerability Scans
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus is an extreme easy to use solution for vulnerability scans and policy compliance auditing we can easily do the scans just typing the IP and in policy compliance auditing we can run the policy compliance audits just providing the admin credentials. Nessus support different type of operating systems and databases according to CIS benchmark so it is hazel free solution for regular security checkups.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to improve the reporting structure of the Nessus reports should be more colourful simple and details directly present to the management.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm using Nessus for regular compliance scans of our internal servers and the find the Vulnerabilities of the servers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nessus prices were higher even though price is higher most easy to use Vulnerability scanner in the industry.
Good vulnerability assessment tool
What do you like best about the product?
Scan results are accurate and we will get fast and reliable results
What do you dislike about the product?
Scan configuration is difficult and needs technical assistance
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Accurate scan results and best tool for security
Scan your anything with Nessus
What do you like best about the product?
I have used this to scan our servers, Db and OS. By using Nessus we can scan vulnerabilities. In our assignment, I have used this to scan servers in my university. The interface is attractive and easy to work. It gives us many options to scan such as policies advance scan, wanna cry and etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
when first time installs the plugins it takes a long time other than that this is an amazing tool for security field persons.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me to do our assignments and projects. we can save us time. when there is no Nessus we have to check manually. everything is simple with Nessus only thing we have to do wait and see what the result is.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I have highly recommended this to every security-related persons to scan their servers, OS and Db. It is very easy to use.
The ideal solution to detect and remedy vulnerabilities in your infrastructure
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Nessus is that it allows us to make discoveries about the equipment that is coexisting in our network, this is very beneficial because it allows us to reinforce security within it and it is often seen that computers appear in the network of which we had no idea and we do not know what activity they are having, could be an attacker, then with nessus we can detect to identify these equipment to later exclude them and keep our network safe at all times
What do you dislike about the product?
What I do not like about Nessus is mainly its interface, which is a bit old-fashioned yet, it can not be denied that they have made some improvements, however they are still far behind in terms of interface if we compare it with other detection tools. vulnerabilities such as AlienVault or Qualys, also another thing that I hate is having to update the plugins of the tool manually every time I'm going to launch scans, I believe that these should be updated automatically for greater convenience of users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cyber security is a fundamental factor in the present and that is why tools such as nessus are escensial within companies since it is with these tools or applications that you can perform deep analyzes of your networks, in order to detect which are the vulnerabilities that they are affecting them and in this way to be able to structure a work plan to remedy them, besides that Nessus tells you step by step how to remedy each one of the vulnerabilities that it detects
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The recommendation is that if you want to stay protected at the network level and avoid security breaches, analyze your network with nessus
The best tool for vulnerability analysis; Nessus
What do you like best about the product?
There are many tools currently to analyze network vulnerabilities, stations, servers and network devices, but few are as efficient and accurate as it is Nessus, what I like most about this powerful application in the first place is that its vulnerability database is constantly updated, in Nessus known as Pugins, not only allows you to detect vulnerabilities that affect your equipment, but also allows you to make a discovery of your network, through which you can validate if there are unauthorized devices found connected to it, it is a simply excellent tool
What do you dislike about the product?
What I do not like about Nessus is how basic the reports generated by the tool can be, since there are other tools of this type that although they are not more powerful than Nessus, when it comes to delivering results of what is has detected offer extensive and fully detailed reports, with Nessus you can have fully detailed information, but in my case to reach it, what I do is export the reports to excel, build a matrix and through dynamic tables I generate the information that I was asked, but if they improved the reporter of the tool would be excellent
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At the corporate level there are many solutions and advantages offered by Nessus, starting with the fact that it allows you to see what are the security breaches that your equipment and your network suffer for its remediation, in fact it tells you step by step how to take out these remediations, in my case I use it to perform scans and remediation in the company network in this way, we can be sure that we are fully protected and can not be attacked by any intruder
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Request the trial version, analyze and discover how unprotected they are, and see how Nessus helps them remedy and close all their security breaches
AWS needs to update this AMI
Works great but AWS needs to update this AMI so that the version of Nessus is at least 7.1.3 and above. I was unable to update Nessus. Per Tenable, it's not possible to update Nessus if launched from this AMI.
https://docs.tenable.com/releasenotes/nessus/servicebulletin.htm
Excellent Scanning Engine
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is intuitive and easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price tag is not unreasonable, but does still present a hurdle for small companies with limited budget for security software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ease of use and simplicity of setup has provided an opportunity to quickly get our internal vulnerability management program up and running with exceptional results.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
In my opinion, Nessus is about as close to industry standard as possible. They really set the bar for others to follow in usability, clean interface, and acceptance by the industry as a whole.
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