We use Tenable Nessus as a vulnerability management tool. It helps identify vulnerabilities in our system, how to address them, and what mitigation steps are required. We can assign high, medium, or low priority levels and schedule scans to run at specific times. The tool generates vulnerability assessment reports, valuable in our organization's environment for continuous security assessment.
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It's an excellent vulnerability scanner.
What do you like best about the product?
We are able to quickly spot PCs that are highly vulnerable.
What do you dislike about the product?
We would appreciate it if the list could be sorted by PC name rather than by IP address.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By identifying vulnerable PCs, we are able to improve overall security.
Identifies and addresses vulnerabilities but the dashboard needs improvement
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We can onboard our organization's access and run scans as needed. We can also share the scan results every year and perform many other tasks with Tenable.
What is most valuable?
It’s a strong vulnerability assessment tool for management and serviceability. It is a reliable product that helps us identify vulnerabilities in our system effectively. I use it to scan our environment with SSM and generate vulnerability assessment reports.
What needs improvement?
The dashboard could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Tenable Nessus for two years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Our team has 10-15 people using this solution. It’s a good tool for vulnerability assessment, and we can identify vulnerabilities in our organization. At this time, we can effectively use it within our organization.
I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is expensive.
I rate the product’s pricing an eight out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Provides good scalability, but there could be more learning documentation
What is our primary use case?
We use Tenable Nessus for asset and vulnerability management.
What is most valuable?
The product's most valuable features are vulnerability and asset management. It can define the rules and validate the configuration.
What needs improvement?
There could be an integration between Tenable Nessus and other Tenable products. It will help us manage all the solutions using one dashboard. Additionally, they should include more learning material to know about the product.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Tenable Nessus for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product has good stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have more than 50 Tenable Nessus users in our organization. It is a scalable platform.
How was the initial setup?
Tenable Nessus is easy to deploy and manage.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend Tenable Nessus to others and rate it a seven out of ten.
Beneficial website scanning, reliable, and scales well
What is our primary use case?
Our clients use Tenable Nessus to find vulnerabilities in websites and infrastructure.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is website scanning.
What needs improvement?
The solution could improve security updates.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Tenable Nessus for approximately three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
I rate the stability of Tenable Nessus a seven out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I am the only one using this solution.
I rate the scalability of Tenable Nessus a seven out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I rate the support of Tenable Nessus a six out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The setup is easy. We use the deployment manual and followed the steps.
I rate the initial setup of Tenable Nessus a nine out of ten.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price is high for the solution. There are free tools with similar functionality available. The solution cost approximately $3,500.
I rate the price of Tenable Nessus a six out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate Tenable Nessus a seven out of ten.
A simple to use stable solution providing good security but needs improvement in user-management
What is our primary use case?
The tool was used mainly to do network and security scans in some designated areas. It was part of maintaining the ISO 27k certification for some countries, like Turkey, Egypt, and India. Another usage was that we had regular and yearly scans planned as part of policies on some other network areas that would do network management in the central region and Internet-shared network.
What is most valuable?
Security is the key number because it can start to scan with a few clicks compared to Qualys, which is a bit complicated. So simplicity is the first advantage. Then the generated reports are well done and easy to present to management. The quality of the scan is quite good in detecting the severity. The solution has simplicity. Also, it has frequent updates so that is also a valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
We've got several versions of Tenable, and the one we use is the professional. It's the only one I know because we did not explore others. It was called Nessus Professional, and it should not be confused with Nessus Enterprise, Tenable, or tenable.sc or tenable.io. In Nessus Professional, the main drawback was that we could have a single-user login password. So it could be better in terms of security. Of course, we could have as many users as we wanted, and we got about fifteen users, but we couldn't distinguish the rules in this solution. If you wanted to allow some people to do a scan of some areas and some other areas, we would have to go through an expensive version. So, with the professional edition, the management of users needed to be improved. We could have a new user-defined.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution since 2003.It has been twenty years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution. Fifteen users are using the solution.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support team is good. But one drawback is that they must give more attention to small customers. We had only ten licenses in the professional mode, one of the cheapest.
So we found it easy to get attention and always found the solution.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We paid about six thousand dollars per license.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I evaluated Qualys but the pricing scheme was different so did not go with that. Although Tenable was much more limited than Qualys.
What other advice do I have?
People should use it because it is straightforward and simple. I would rate it seven out of ten, for the simplicity of usage and the quality of the security assessment that is done and the reporting.
Great to view detailed reports
What do you like best about the product?
Very detailed reports, and you can sort/find specifics.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes considerable CPU power when the program is not even running.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We import reports into nessus. We get specific information out of Nessus for our reports.
Easy to use and beginner friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Loved how detailed the findings were represented.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside I can think of is that it is quite expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have used it during my bug bounty hunting and pentest engagement, and it proved to be a good addition to my arsenal.
Best vulnerability scanner.
What do you like best about the product?
Scanner is good. It is very easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Report is bad. It is very hard to use...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to get bugs.
Amazing experience
What do you like best about the product?
Almost everything is helpful about Messi's.
What do you dislike about the product?
As per my requirements or views there is no any downsides.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My basic automation problems are solved by the nessus
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.
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