Nessus (BYOL)
Tenable, Inc. | 10.8.3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20240903 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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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Nessus Review
What do you like best about the product?
Vulnerability scanning is great. Reporting is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
Compliance scans, to many false positives.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerability and Compliance scanning to meet compliance regulations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get the compliance to elevate so many false positives.
Powerful Vulnerability assessmnent tool at a more than reasonable cost
What do you like best about the product?
Speed! I can get accurate results from a Nessus scan much faster than I get from other products costing 1000% more. The interface is extremely intuitive and I can configure a scan quickly compared to my other tools. It is my 'Go To' system when a client requests a scan to validate patches of config changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike has nothing to do with the tool itself. I dislike that my manager feels the cost of the tool is indicative of its overall worth and reputation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Nessus Pro to complement our vulnerability assessment program and to validate detections in order to determine false positives. I consider this tool as an invaluable asset in hardening our PCI and DMZ environments.
Nessus Vulnerability scanner
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus allows scan for different kinds of vulnerabilities as denials of service, default passwords, misconfigurations. It is supported on a lot of operating systems and platforms.It also has an evaluation trial that helps you to decide if it is good for you or not. I think is great for big companies.
What do you dislike about the product?
It cant manage all scans from one location. So doesn't have centralized management. It doesn't provide roles based access. It doesn’t seem to offer long term solutions and the support it is no so fats.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerabilities scanner. Protection. Security
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare with others products and check the requirements you need so you are sure Nessus apply to your environment
Excellent software
What do you like best about the product?
provides insight on your environment. Easy to install and to operate. Reporting add a lot of value for upper management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Once the vulnerabilities are identified, we must fix and re-scan to validate they disappeared. Sometimes Nessus is still showing the vulnerability even if the fix is applied
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security and Compliance
Recommendations to others considering the product:
great product.
Nessus is a top tier scanner that is easy to use and effective at finding vulnerabilities.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. The application is easy to setup and use with canned templates that get you scanning for what you need to find. The scan results are among the most accurate I have seen which is welcome in this day and age.
What do you dislike about the product?
The scan results could be easier to read. Sometimes I find the scan results to be a bit difficult to read with the current setup. However after you play around with the settings a little and get used to the format it is not an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For me vulnerability threat management and tracking installed patches is the primary use of Nessus. The benefits of using Nessus is getting a well priced top tier application for a fair price.
effective but lacks polish
What do you like best about the product?
the detail on the vulnerabilities and recommended fixes
What do you dislike about the product?
The graphical user interface. and reports need improvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compliance
Nessus works well
What do you like best about the product?
The amount/variety of plugins that cover just about everything you need to scan for, both new/0 day threats and past.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting could be better in Nessus Pro (I don't have exposure to other levels to see if there is better reporting)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making sure systems are updated with the necessary patches. A nice benefit is seeing the biggest bang for our buck (deploy one patch will fix 80% of critical issues for example)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure the reporting matches your needs, otherwise it's great
Solid product for security and compliance
What do you like best about the product?
The job scheduling features make it easy for me to run scans quarterly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, I feel it is a little slow with the scans, the machine is pretty robust that we run it on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compliance issues with ISO and SOC
Great Pro tool for scannig
What do you like best about the product?
Variety of tools, not only vulnerabilities, compliance scans as well
What do you dislike about the product?
Price, it would be great that this can be modular so price can be less
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps a lot with our PCI-DSS audits
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Buy it !!
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