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Nessus (BYOL)

Tenable, Inc. | 10.8.3

Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20240903 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Mohammed F.

Excellent Network Scanning tool

  • April 18, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Policy Management and Reporting Style of the application. Nessus and its GUI is really well designed, It is mostly minimal and good looking, very clean, it is worth noting that in every update they improve it and include some types of scans that can bring you more complete and better results when you carry out an scan. Also its worth mentioning that the plugins in Nessys database are well updated and that your community team generates an well response on time. Pricing is cheaper and is worth the money that thet provide. It has PCI scanning which is one added feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reports more false positives sometimes in the scan. Sometime it is diffucult during initial setup in our environment, there were several complications when attempting to connect machines in our internal network which is really tiring when we are out of support.It lacks interaction with some other tools like Metasploit which is the swiss army knife of network testing. While it is easy to use, it also requires a certain level of knowledge from the user, if it could explain things a little better as the user moved through the program
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The scan might take a longer time for small assets.
Picking up the smaller findings and Low hanging fruits
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nessus does help satisfy our client demands, but it helps us find vulnerabilities in our systems and helps us find patches and solutions to the vulnerabilities. It very easy to find remediation for the application


    Yash V.

Nessus is a very good application for beginners

  • April 17, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Nessus is now a days much used application for penetration testing and vulnerabilities assessment. Its an automated scanner for vulnerabilities and it will help beginners to grow in cyber security field and its provides total informatio of a website.
What do you dislike about the product?
Till now , i havent faced any problems using Nessus tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Generally i do manual scanning first of a website and then after the whole manual scanning process is done and i couldn't find any futher information , vulnerabilities then I use nessus as it gives whole information regarding vulnerability of a website.


    Information Technology and Services

My experience was so amazing and it helps me to make my work easy.

  • April 17, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The best in nessus is its very helpful in detecting vulnerabilities
What do you dislike about the product?
The thing i dislike is Nessus isn't installed on Kali Linux by default,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can safe our things from hackers using nessus and this is the only way of solving many problems


    Telecommunications

I used to work with nessus for doing va and pt for assets but not for web applications and api's

  • April 16, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Many thing are great provided by tenable, such as CIS compliance checks and ad-scans... etc
What do you dislike about the product?
The reports are basic and not very flexible to be customized in templates
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I like how nessus updates their thread db they always look to provide customers with latest threats, but it's preferred to have more emails notifications about the new threats (threat feeds)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great tool to be used for IS team's


    Indrajeet S.

Best Tool for vulnerability assessments love to use it everyday.

  • April 16, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Nessus provides a wide range of configuration which helps to find vulnerabilities faster and in an efficient way. The preconfigured testing modules helps to choose between different types of attack vectors. This tool is regularly updated for new CVE's and features. Most of the features that I use are already present in this tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes when you scan a large scope it gets slow a little. Sometimes I face some issue when I scan for IP but it is fixed now in the newer version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I solve a problem like fast scanning and reliable tools problem. This tool helps me to work faster and quicker. Nessus helps you to build and improve your skills. It helped me to scan domains quicker. A few years back I was new to the Cyber security field Nessus was the first tool that I learned to use because it is so handly and easy to use.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want a tool that can scan and work in most of the domains of cybersecurity such as IoT and regular scanning then go with Nessus. Whoever works in cybersecurity you guys show to use these tools also who are new to cybersec or infosec even bug bounty guys can start using this tool. Recently I found a vulnerability using nessus I just put a domain on scan and boom I found sensitive data which I reported to the domain admin and he thanks me this was all possible because of nessus.


    Computer & Network Security

Nessus is gamechanger, it helps me to reduce my work pressure

  • April 15, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Everything is perfect in nessus.
I like so many things in nessus,
Environment is very user friendly
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing to dislike, if i compare it with other tools, i found it as best tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
After using nessus my work speed increased and i got promoted
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes


    Management Consulting

Reliable results!

  • April 14, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The interface is straightforward; there are many preconfigured scan templates available for compliance checks; the software is updated regularly; I can generate report content very quickly
What do you dislike about the product?
There really isn't anything that I dislike; I have been a long time user and have relied on Nessus for client and personal scans
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it as part of vulnerability management programs for customers and I use it as part of the discovery stage in penetration testing


    Non-Profit Organization Management

Nessus is a simple to use and effective vulnerability management software

  • April 14, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Using nessus is very simple and intuitive
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I would appreciate more flexible reporting options
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus helps to secure different kind of environments by reducing risks
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nessus is easy to setup and install


    Taha K.

Super experience using Nessus

  • April 14, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Nessus has an upto date vulnerability database along with a user friendly UI
What do you dislike about the product?
Installation of Nessus takes a very long time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've used Nessus mainly to perform VaPT activities. It is a major time saver


    Dipesh J.

Nessus is one of the best VA scanners I have used till date

  • April 14, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like many features but are not restricted to the below:
-scheduled scans
-policy compliance scans
-offline audit of network devices
-Scanning Cloud Infrastructre
What do you dislike about the product?
I would love if the plugin updates have a better method to be done offline.
I would also appreciate if Tenable rolls out a free scanner with professional features for the community. (I think this wasa discontinued in 2019)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous Vulnerability Management is simplified. Scheduled scans and extremely detailed PDF and CSV Reports help me automate a major chunk of Assessment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nessus should be used by professionals who understand the benefits of automation and importance of vulnerability management in enterprise environment