Tenable Nessus Reviews

Tenable Nessus's primary use case is scanning endpoints and servers for vulnerabilities, outdated patches, or services. I am using it to increase visibility and dive deep into systems. 

The tool is particularly used for scanning Linux servers to check for vulnerabilities and unwanted patches or services.

Tenable Nessus has provided increased visibility across the organization's servers. It automates the process of checking for outdated features and services across multiple servers, which would be challenging to do manually. This solution helps in detecting vulnerabilities that could go unnoticed otherwise.

We do infrastructure audits in the state, and we have a lot of organizations and customers for which we do security assessments.

Nessus assists you to complete the job in a shorter period of time. It discovers all the assets and identifies existing vulnerabilities in the environment. 

You can then direct your team to create a report on the discovered vulnerabilities. Basically, you can use Tenable to shorten the activity and get faster results.

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.

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.

I implement the solution as a vulnerability management tool for client use cases. It can be used for public factors because it sits right where you have tie in and bleeds over or in between other tools as another piece in the EDR puzzle. The solution identifies vulnerabilities, applies patches, and provides some other EDR results. 

I have also used the solution in environments where customers only want to pay for master's licensing and conduct vulnerability scanning for 100 to 12,000 endpoints. It took 23 days to create a security center from that page with data imports and API plugins. 

It really just depends on what you need, where your money lies, and what you want to get from the solution at the endpoints. 

The solution has a single price for unlimited assets. Value wise, the solution is also great for pen testers and consultants. 

The solution is useful for vulnerability and patch management from both the internal and public facing sides. 

Quick assessments, compliance scores, and results are provided without having to do agents. 

The platform is essential for vulnerability management tasks and integrates with various data management applications.

The product could have unique features similar to Qualys. 

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.

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.

Tenable is for scanning the vulnerabilities on the endpoint. That's the prime use case. It can also be extended for scanning web publications, et cetera. 

Nessus is a very stable product. And it has been a pioneer and has been around for a long time. Their vulnerability dashboards are very good to use.

It is easy to set up.

The solution can scale well. 

The pricing is reasonable.