Our clients use Tenable Nessus to find vulnerabilities in websites and infrastructure.
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Beneficial website scanning, reliable, and scales well
What is our primary use case?
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.
Poorna's Nessus Review
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus is one of the best tools in vulnerability assessment technology. It is effortless and very effective in identifying any CVEs present in the servers. Practically effective in identifying the lack of security patches.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some issues with Nessus in the report-making process, and mostly FP cases pop up, which must be lowered.
Sometimes asset grouping is formidable. And the pricing may not suit everyone.
Apart from these, it has no significant flaws.
Sometimes asset grouping is formidable. And the pricing may not suit everyone.
Apart from these, it has no significant flaws.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus is helping us with the Security posture Analysis and Vulnerability assessment.
The Vulnerability life cycle is very much productive, and we have been in an updated environment.
The Vulnerability life cycle is very much productive, and we have been in an updated environment.
Great tool for testing vulnerabilities
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the way it look for vulnerabilities into the iT environment and helps for the need of quick vulnerability assessment in the different devices and assets.
What do you dislike about the product?
It have no good integration with iot assets, and sometimes it gives a lot of information about vulnerabilities not explotables, so there is not useful information.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the need for running manual scans and test between the different IT assets during vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, and we only focus in results given by Nessus.
Nessus Professional makes my job easier
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus takes the guesswork out of finding out what needs to be addressed and helps you determine what's most critical in your environment. The process of finding vulnerabilities is simple and intuitive and it constantly keeps up with newly discovered vulnerabilities that arise and helps you detect them in your environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't anything about Nessus Professional that I don't like. In three years of using Nessus Professional, we've not had any issues with the scan results in our environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before we used Nessus Professional, we used several tools to determine potential vulnerabilities in our environment. However, they had inconsistent reporting and didn't keep up with newly released vulnerabilities. Now we have one tool that can scan for vulnerabilities and even check that we're compliant with best practices.
Great too for vulnerability discovering
What do you like best about the product?
It is a great tool for discovering vulnerabilities and grouping them for IT infrastructure and getting all information about it, remediations and way for explotation.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be great if we could get all vulnerabilities that have a real impact on all the infrastructure, it would be very helpful to reduce false positive results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us to reduce the time we take by working on pen testing and vulnerability assessments. We take great advantage of it because it is work we often do manually
Nessus Vulnerability Scanner Review
What do you like best about the product?
The support is very helpful. The new interface has a crisp design as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the plugins detected are false positives including some windows patch updtaes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus Vulnerability scans are helping the organisation to scan the network for vulnerabilities which can be exploited. How to mitigate the vulnerabilities are also provided by nessus.
Top three products in the Network Penetration Testing industry.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and deployment within engagements.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of reliability for some findings. A ton of false positives in some testing environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick to deploy, fast to test automated network security testing.
Wonderful ,smooth user experience and identity the known and unknown gaps in network proactively.
What do you like best about the product?
More detection capabilities and help us to address zero days quickly and custom VM scans will always more fruitful
What do you dislike about the product?
This was addressed, now we have more detection capabilities and Abel to identify more active vulnerabilities with less false positives alert rate
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With the evolving threat landscape, matching the market with competitive analysis in the security domain by identifying all the vulnerabilities and threats proactively.
Great
What do you like best about the product?
Ease to select the scan template and customise the same. The graphicsl representation of findings and its description.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having an auto pause and resume scan feature will be helpfull.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps in Vulnerability Assessment, server reviews, network device config audits.
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