Nessus (BYOL)
Tenable, Inc. | 10.8.3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20240903 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Nessus Vulnerability Scanning Review
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus Scanning covers almost all the vulnerabilities related to 3rd Party APPs, OS Level vulnerabilities, Container vulnerabilities, MisConfiguration and related issues, etc. I like it being a one stop solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of concerns with Nessus Agents. Like, it will require Nessus Relinking, once the agent stops to report to Nessus Manager, Tagging concerns for ephemeral environments where servers are coming up and downs, etc. Its highly recommended for static environments but messy for ephemeral/dynamic environments. Always requires some sort of scripting automation to relink, untag and tag again. Some instances (5-10%) show concerns when Nessus Agents are auth(n) fine but still Nessus Manager fails to recognize the same. These issues need to be raised to Nessus Engineering teams to provided a tool which can check back and forth for Nessus Connections and do the same stuff for us, should not just be an overhead for the customer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problems mostly related to vuln scans. No other Security Vuln. scanner is close to Nessus. Tried some opensource solutions and cloud solutions as well, but no comparison to Nessus.
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Amazing Security Auditing tool
What do you like best about the product?
Flexible user interface and dashboard that present users with various tools
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting is not as detailed like some of its competitors
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network Auditing and vulnerability scanning
User friendly, Simple yet powerful scanner for Network Scans
What do you like best about the product?
Feasibility of Configuration - very simple UI to configure vulnerability Scan
Compliance scan files - provides exhaustive list of default audit files for compliance checks. Also has option for uploading custom audit files.
Vulnerability Reports - Reports provide detailed yet specific information on issues. Executive summary option is very helpful
Compliance scan files - provides exhaustive list of default audit files for compliance checks. Also has option for uploading custom audit files.
Vulnerability Reports - Reports provide detailed yet specific information on issues. Executive summary option is very helpful
What do you dislike about the product?
APIs - APIs are not that matured compared to other tools like Qualls
Inventory Management - Inventory management is not impressive. Need to rely on manual update.
Inventory Management - Inventory management is not impressive. Need to rely on manual update.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To analyze the security posture of organization's infrastructure
This tools always works for me. I am habitual with this tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like options for scanning and updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much to say about dislike but maybe tool can be optimzed more
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Systems scans and web scans
Nessus is good one for internal scanning
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus has advanced scans and scheduling option. Which makes security researchers and Pentesters to schedule scans as per their choice. Advanced option includes scans as based on standards like PCI DSS and others..
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus doesn't scans indeep when it comes for web application and others..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to covers most of the vulnerabilities. Updating their plugins helps us to scans new vulnerabilities as per cve.
Nessus Scanner Review
What do you like best about the product?
The option to scan targets with a proper scope in place.
What do you dislike about the product?
The white colour background, maybe more themes?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is ideal for quick pentests
I have used Nessus for vulnerability scanning to discover the vulnerable systems and applications
What do you like best about the product?
Most plugins in Nessus is very good for scanning
What do you dislike about the product?
I think Nessus take to much time for getting a results
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I didn't face any problem, fortunately I'm using it continuously to discover vulnerabilities
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Scan your servers by Nessus bacause is excellent
No access to port 8000?
Cannot access appliance management on TCP/8000 once the appliance is online. As such, cannot manage SSL certificate and a host of other options.
Great Solution for Automated Scanning needs
What do you like best about the product?
Scheduling
Report Quality
Speed
Ease of installation
Report Quality
Speed
Ease of installation
What do you dislike about the product?
False Positives
May not be able to bypass detection at Firewall
May not be able to bypass detection at Firewall
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous scanning
Compliance
Internal Audits
Compliance
Internal Audits
I have use Nessus in my previous company. It provides various scan options to perform
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus Application and Host Vulnerability scanning.
Training and guidance
Training and guidance
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I can think of. There is the constant addition of new features according to market requirement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automatic scanning. The reports are clear and with very few false positives
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