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Tenable Nessus

Network vulnerability scanner

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Overview

What Tenable Nessus does

Tenable Nessus is the industry-leading vulnerability assessment tool providing real-time visibility into network security. It helps organizations identify misconfigurations, malware, and unauthorized changes across networks and cloud environments.

What people use it for

  • Vulnerability scanning of servers, network devices and web applications
  • Configuration and compliance auditing against hardening benchmarks
  • Point in time assessments by consultants and penetration testers

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Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Tenable Nessus.

  • Nessus Professional is $4,790 for one year, sold as an annual licence rather than a per scan or usage based fee
  • Support beyond the base entitlement costs an extra $400 per year for Advanced Support with 24x365 phone and chat access
  • The on demand training course is a separate $275 purchase for a single person for one year
  • Multi year discounts require paying for two or three years up front

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Pricing

What Tenable Nessus costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Nessus Essentials

Free

  • Up to 16 ips
  • Network scanning
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Free forever

Nessus Professional

$2,600 /yr

  • Unlimited targets
  • Enterprise features
  • Advanced analytics

Nessus Expert

$5,200 /yr

  • All Professional features
  • Cloud integration
  • Advanced reporting

Capabilities

Features

  • Network scanning

    Network scanning capability

  • Vulnerability detection

    Vulnerability detection capability

  • Configuration assessment

    Configuration assessment capability

  • Malware detection

    Malware detection capability

  • Compliance checking

    Compliance checking capability

  • Cloud security assessment

    Cloud security assessment capability

  • Mobile scanning

    Mobile scanning capability

  • API access

    API access capability

  • AWS

    Integration with AWS

  • Azure

    Integration with Azure

  • Google Cloud

    Integration with Google Cloud

  • Splunk

    Integration with Splunk

Behind it

Who makes Tenable Nessus

Company
Tenable Holdings, Inc.
Based in
Columbia, Maryland, USA
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