Nessus (BYOL)
Tenable, Inc. | 10.8.4Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 20250405 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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
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I used to work with nessus for doing va and pt for assets but not for web applications and api's
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
It has been very useful to detect existing failures in my company
What do you like best about the product?
Its interface has a fairly simple and intuitive design to use at all times, which allows me to streamline in a much simpler and faster way a large number of tasks in a much more practical, agile and safe way, the fact that we allows us to detect in a much simpler and more efficient way the existing vulnerabilities in our company is something that has been very helpful to us to improve any failure or error that may occur during the development of our activities, its interface has a minimalist design but at the same time quite powerful to do everything in a very practical way, its ease of installation and configuration is also something that is of great help when making the initial configurations of the application in a much faster and more practical way.
What do you dislike about the product?
My main complaint is with their customer service team, they take too long to respond to any questions or problems that may arise, which I consider something quite problematic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has been very useful for me to detect existing faults in my company in a much faster, simpler and more efficient way, which has been of great help to me in achieving a great improvement in a large number of processes within my company, without mention that it facilitates the improvement of coexistence with my employees, since having the company well monitored and controlled, in the sense of avoiding as far as possible the existence of failures that are mainly those that can generate some type of inconvenience or trigger serious communication problems this translates into a better coexistence for everyone and a better performance within the office.
Nessus is a great tool for our security department
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus has really helped our newly formed security department hit the ground running by identifying and pinpointing specific vulnerabilities on our network for remediation.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of false positives, including untrusted CAs. The remediations/solutions provided for each vulnerability could also be more specific.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been able to upgrade outdated OSs, identify and install missing server patches, and show progress on vulnerability management from week to week.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to not only scan on a regular basis, but also check the scans thoroughly and learn each vulnerability in order to get a better idea how to remediate the risk, accept it, or determine if it is a false positive.
Powerful but easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that Nessus provides you whith all of the information you need to resolve any issues found.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus can on occasion get out of sync and results are a bit wacky, doesn't happen often though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Passing Federal Examiners audits!!!!!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good appliance.
I find the functionality useful
What do you like best about the product?
I like the vulnerability prioritization functionality best. It helps to determine which vulnerabilities to need to be addressed first
What do you dislike about the product?
Not always easy to learn. Training could be better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're trying to solve some of the shortcomings of Qualys. ie. better vulnerability detection.
Nessus - One-Stop Vulnerability Management
What do you like best about the product?
Detected vulnerabilities are easily researchable with the embedded links to Tennable's database.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is very plain but works better and is easier to navigate then other flashy tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Vulnerability management and remediation. Some problems can't be fixed with just installing a patch. For that, there is Nessus.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check int the reporting aspect. It's very good.
Nessus Pro; afforadable and effective
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use, configuration, and scheduling help us meet our compliance needs and provide a clear picture of vulnerabilities by group
What do you dislike about the product?
The recent change to single accounts means my analysts cannot create and run their own specialized ad-hoc scans.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has greatly simplified out compliance reporting and mitigation strategies
Nessus Pro Review
What do you like best about the product?
Name recognition and it is relatively inexpensive when comparing to other products. It does a fine job and is relatively easy to setup and use. Additionally, technical support is very good.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting. There is a lack of good reporting. The account team is too passive. Not sure the roadmap of the company. The account team never proactively brings to our attention of new products, features and lineups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To determine vulnerability malware analysis.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Reporting is very important to us. However, the can reports in Nessus are not sufficient. It is difficult to generate custom reports for various department needs. I have dealt with their technical support team a lot and they are great. Their sales team, on the other hand, is a bit passive. Did not have quarterly review or annual review.
The industry standard for vulnerability scanning
What do you like best about the product?
Simple to configure most scans. Software upgrades are very smooth and easy, probably my favorite software to upgrade because of the lack of issues or hassle. In my experience, most companies use it so its a familiar tool no matter where I work. I like that it is a reliable product with a plethora of valuable data that can be used to increase an organizations security posture.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some false positives. Wish it was easier to search specific vulnerabilities and aggregate or sort results data. Would like the ability make notes in the software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A wonderful resource for assessing an organizations security posture. We have relied upon Nessus scan results numerous times to identify vulnerable systems when a new significant exploit has been announced.
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