Tenable Nessus Reviews & Product Details

Nessus helps organizations during the auditing process by providing clear reports of the vulnerabilities as they are found during the scanning. The agent helps detect vulnerable software, misconfigured settings and other security-related issues like patches. It provides the alert along with a CVE score which helps to identify the criticality and impact of the vulnerability on the organization's security. It shows the vulnerability which really needs the attention of the security team and gives accurate scanning and provides the view that which vulnerabilities should be patched first. Nessus plugin contains the vulnerability information with the remediation action which brings easy for the security team to remediate the vulnerability easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes when we are scanning the vulnerabilities in a large environment it takes time like 2-3 days to find all the vulnerabilities of the whole environment. The scanning requires downtime from the organization so that it does not affect the production environment as sometimes it brings high traffic which interrupts the production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nessus was very easy to install, and we were up and running in very little time. There are lots of various scan type options to choose from. Our third party auditors also use Nessus for internal vulnerability scans, and we were able to import their scanning template in order to do accurate post remediation scans. We were able to easily setup a weekly scan schedule. Product updates are simple and straight forward, and we recieve notification when new versions are available. The price was also within our budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish Nessus had a vulnerability remediation option. Finding all the detailed vulnerabilities is only half the battle, researching the vulnerability and the fix is also time consuming. Nessus does have links to the CVE or KB docs, and many times remediation reccomendations, but the patching process is still manual. I realize that automatic remediation may not always be the best practice depending on the vulnerability, the system/device, and various other factors, but possibly some options for simple patches would be very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform is very intuitive, it is easy to operate without prior knowledge, and additionally, the reliability of the results obtained at the vulnerability level is very accurate. The reports are easy to interpret and generate high value for the company for decision-making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That the technology is still On-Premises and this leads to expenses in infrastructure, which generates additional costs for the organization and depreciation in this used hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tenable Nessus Professional is widely praised for several key features that make it a preferred choice for vulnerability management BUT I want to focus my review on why it make sense for you if you have a lot of IP to scan.

Most of the scanners have licenses per IP, so if you have wide ip ranges, licenses fee would be astronomious.

You will need to accomodate the limited reporting and vulnerability management feature of the proffessional version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nessus Professional need some good process OR automation to get the most of it as you dont have any 'quality of life' feature like dashboard, tracking and limited automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tenable Nessus has been the industry standard for many years. This is because it will do everything that you need it to do while scanning your infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nessus may require some technology knowledge higher than a normal user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tenable Nessus is easy to setup and easy to navigate. The reporting gives good detail to help remediate the vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Tenable Nessus for many years and I can't say I have any dislikes for the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nessus is a powerful tool with extensive reporting and automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't found anything to dislike about Nessus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Nessus scans give us insight into areas we might have vunerabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The past scans can take up disk space. I haven't found a good way to automatically remove the old ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nessus has one of the largest libraries of vulnerability and configuration checks, covering a wide range of systems, devices, and applications.

Despite its comprehensive feature set, Nessus is known for its user-friendly interface, which can help users get up and running quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Nessus is known for its comprehensive vulnerability scanning capabilities, it can sometimes produce false positives, which can lead to unnecessary work for security teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Free to use

-Has community version where you can use Nessus for free to some extent

-Great user interface

-It also identifies miscofinguration in code

-Versatile tool

-Great dashboards and reporting mechanism Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-I have only used free community version and it has quite a few limitation with number of hosts and scans etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.