Tenable Nessus Valuable Features
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.
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Jerome TOUTEE
Former Employee of Orange Business Services as Head of Security Engineering at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
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.
View full review »It is easy to deploy and easy to use. Its reporting is good. From this reporting, you can see the pain point in your network, which makes it easy to fix them. It is easy to understand the reports and export them.
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Tenable Nessus
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Tenable Nessus. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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reviewer1239462
CISO at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Nessus gives me a good preview of vulnerabilities and good suggestions for remediation. It's easy to find a description of a given vulnerability and solutions for it.
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reviewer2154231
Information Security Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
My favorite part about Nessus is that you can customize the tool to scan exactly what you want. Microsoft releases new patches monthly on Patch Tuesday, and a lot of companies track that date. I set up Nessus for the day after Patch Tuesday to see which devices have already pushed those updates from Microsoft, so we can stay updated.
Tenable stays on top of new IT trends in vulnerability management because there's constant innovation. They keep up with the industry. In the past few years, everything has shifted to cloud-based servers. It's a long-term trend that COVID accelerated. Tenable came out with a tool for that.
View full review »The solution is easy to understand for users because instructions are included on the platform.
Scanning capabilities are vast with built-in configurations that are pre-coded for various types of servers.
There are very few false positives reported.
It is easy to access and share reports. For example, consultants can extract reports, remove columns if needed, and share final copies with clients.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the GUI and user-friendliness. Additionally, the environment is easy to work with.
I love everything about Nessus. I may be biased in my rating, biased in the sense that I love using Nessus.
The usability is okay. The pricing is okay. The costs are reasonable.
The level they give you is good. It depends on the kind of scan that you want to do. There are different options there. If I want to do a PCI scan, that is available. If I want to do a scan that involves checking to see if the system patching is up to date, that is available. If I want to scan against trending vulnerabilities, I can do that, too. They have so many different options. You can streamline it to what you want, and you do your scan.
Nessus is flexible. It gives a holistic view of your entire environment. I would go for a Nessus any day, anytime.
They have a good reporting system. I love the reporting system. The references they made in terms of recommendations are great. They can give a recommendation on how to get a particular issue fixed.
The setup is straightforward.
It is stable and reliable.
We can scale the product.
The solution makes ransomware checking and OS auditing and implementation relatively easy. It covers most of the requirements for benchmarks for all sorts of widely available required configuration settings in the technology industry. It's also very user-friendly, easy on the eye, and saves a lot of time. It provides us with reports that perfectly satisfy compliance requirements, whatever the device or configuration settings.
View full review »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.
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Sandip Deshmukh
Cyber Security Expert at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
The vulnerability scanner is the most valuable feature. It's an important feature for us. We use the plugin output for that. It shows us the exact version of Nessus and what is needed for remediation. Based on that, we decide what should be remediated first to get the best result for security.
The agent scanner is a valuable feature. We also do credential scans, which gives the equivalent report. In the log project situation, we receive very good support from Nessus. They have built one policy for the log project itself. With the help of that policy and the plugins specified for the log project, the scans were faster for that project.
If we run a scan, it will usually check all of the plugins, which is a time-consuming process. We received help, and we had one plugin for the log project. That was for checking the log project only because we were already done with the complete scan.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the support it provides for any new vulnerabilities quickly.
View full review »What I like about it is the fact that it can figure out what changes we need to make on our systems to ensure that they're hardened properly.
The initial setup is not difficult.
Once you get past the initial implementation, the solution is very stable.
It's scalable.
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Bryan Evans
Security Analyst at PJM Interconnection
The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is vulnerability detection.
View full review »Scanners and reports using CIS templates ("de-facto" standard, easy to fix and to locate correction tips in the documentation), tests against cloud providers, database profiles, several types of telecom devices, and other highly customizable scans. You can scale your environment to gradually increase the quality, depth, and quantity of the tests, enabling you to learn and gradually optimize your vulnerability management platform(s)/instance(s). The possibility of integration with other market tools (Kenna, Archer...) is another differential.
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reviewer1266162
Information Security Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It does exactly what you expect it to do, and its pricing is great. We couldn't really ask for a better deal.
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reviewer1541385
Cybersecurity Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The valuable feature for me is being able to ping the computers to do the automated scan and to come back and be able to see everything. That's definitely a huge plus, but then there's also the ease of reviewing the scores, identifying vulnerabilities, and getting the information on the vulnerabilities; the ability to review all that within one tool has been phenomenal. When we're reviewing those Nessus scores, the solution works well.
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reviewer2075424
Head of IT security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I am impressed with the tool's vulnerability scanning.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is vulnerability assessments. There are a lot of threats around the world and this solution is the first to come out with detection rules.
View full review »I like this solution because it is complete. It can scan and check many types of vulnerabilities. It can also check for compliance.
It fits very well in my environment. It is very easy to use, and there is a very good cost-benefit of this solution.
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reviewer2295975
Senior cybersecurity engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The product has good features. It gives us a view of the vulnerabilities like open ports and different issues with software. It is a mature tool.
View full review »The most valuable features of the solution are the policy and the active scan. The features are different for Tenable Security Center since it is more on an on-premises model. The solution also has features like Tenable.io and Tenable Web App Scanning.
The ease of use is the primary valuable feature. This specific version is very straightforward. I like the ability to modify it and configure it based on the different policies.
I also like the number of plugins. It has quite a lot of plugins that keep it up to date with the different vulnerabilities coming out.
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Mouad BOUKIR
Works at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution can conduct a full vulnerability assessment and also suggest mitigation of vulnerabilities and has a lot of other features.
It creates a classification of the vulnerability and the likelihood and the impact on other features.
The solution is easy to deploy and simple to use.
It's scalable.
The solution is stable.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is website scanning.
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reviewer1043379
Chief Executive Officer at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees
The results are not that bad, but the key selling point is that it is an affordable tool set.
It is a very easy tool to use.
We are happy with the existing features.
We are happy with the functionality, and what we get from the tool.
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Fatjon Celaj
Network Security Delivery Manager at alascom
I have found the vulnerability assessment and the reports to be useful.
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reviewer1229910
Security Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is the breadth of vulnerabilities that it finds. It's able to find across a lot of different platforms and operating systems. It's also able to combine local testing with network-based testing.
When it comes to vulnerability prioritization, Tenable's predictive features are off to a great start. It's definitely giving us more data to help prioritize, instead of just relying on straight CVSS. The vulnerability priority rating has been accurate and is helping us prioritize effectively, based on risk or based on the likelihood of being exploited. Based on what they say, and comparing it to what we are seeing with malware exploits, their predictions are lining up with what we are seeing being exploited.
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reviewer2002593
Security Compliance Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable aspect of this solution is that you receive the entire report, which details the breakdown, especially in terms of critical, high, low, and mediums. It also informs you exactly what was wrong with it. Then I believe it copies the CVS's score as well.
View full review »Tenable Nessus is good. It's the best vulnerability solution in the industry. Most organizations are using it.
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NagarajSheshachalam
Lead Cyber Security engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
A valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to understand. When it comes to running a scan, the scanning mechanism is also easy, and it is quite fast compared to Veracode and Qualys.
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John-Kang
Senior Systems Administrator at Government Scientific Source, Inc.
The most valuable feature is how it scanned and detected through its database to let us know exactly what fixes we needed to put in place for the vulnerabilities. It detects and it also gives you the way to fix it.
The product's VPR did a great job in prioritizing and giving the highs versus the mediums; it did a great job providing the different ratings and priorities.
View full review »The most valuable features of Tenable Nessus are the scanning option. Advanced scanning is highly useful. The offline config audits and application assessments are useful.
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reviewer1818828
Security Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is real-time monitoring.
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reviewer1691895
Senior Partner
Overall Zoom is a good solution.
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Attila Mate Kovacs
Senior Cyber Security Expert at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Tenable Nessus is one of the best vulnerability assessment tools, that I know.
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Daniel Durante
Senior Manager at a security firm with 201-500 employees
Tenable Nessus is cheap and flexible.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the installation of Tenable which is incredibly easy. Even those without extensive technical knowledge can do it. All we need is the license and a few clicks through the installation process which is simple. Once the program is installed on all PCs and servers, we're good to go!
View full review »Nessus is effortless to integrate.
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reviewer1785186
CBO at a security firm with 11-50 employees
It gives you an unlimited IP scan. It's a cheap solution compared to Rapid7 or Qualys. It's very user-friendly. Customers can easily scan their network.
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Dhananjay-Naldurgkar
Senior Consultant - Cyber Security Services at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is the most dynamic one I have seen thus far. It is one of the best available solutions. It is the best vulnerability tool that is available at present.
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Muhammad NavaidZafar Ansari
Assistant Manager of Information Security at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I feel comfortable with the solution's vulnerability scanning capabilities.
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MuhammadBilal4
Sr. Information Security Engineer at Rewterz
The scanning capabilities are most valuable when compared to Nessus.
View full review »The reports are pretty nice and easy to understand.
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reviewer1387677
IT Security Operations Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features are that it's fast, it's easy to use, and it provides good reports.
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reviewer1392108
Vulnerability Management Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The VPR scores are the solution's most valuable aspects.
The plug-in text information is quite useful.
The solution can scale well.
We've found the solution to be quite stable.
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Keith S. Crumpton
President and Sr CISO Consultant at Micro Strategies
Nessus is good at finding out what nodes you have in place. It will then provide you a report, by node, of what the vulnerabilities are. It does it quickly and stealthfully.
It also has an executive report where you don't have to provide the client all the detail for them to sift though. But if they wish to dig through the detail they can.
The predictive prioritization features are spot-on. I enjoy how it actually gives me a prioritization that I can address and it associates it with a known vulnerability. I like that.
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Rachel TSAI
IT Manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the dashboard. They are convenient to use.
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Miguel Angel Hernández Armas
Implementation Engineer at GFx Soluciones
The comprehensive coverage offered by Nessus has been the most remarkable; it really does everything that has been asked of the software.
It's great, the possibility of automating implementations and really your database is immense for all the compliances and vulnerabilities.
Tenable University is great and allows to train all the personnel in charge of making the scans in an optimal and effective way.
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MadhavanSrinivasan
CEO at Screenit Labs Pvt Ltd
We have done code scanning for a long period because as a company, we do DevOps as part of our development life cycle. We like scanning the ports and security as well as application-level security.
View full review »The product's most valuable features are vulnerability and asset management. It can define the rules and validate the configuration.
View full review »What I like most about Tenable Nessus is its vulnerability scanning feature.
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reviewer1397976
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I like its ease of use. It has the script that is pre-built in it, and you just got to know which ones you're looking for.
View full review »I like the fact that it was not expensive. I like that it's user-friendly.
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Angus Konig
IT Manager at Medmen
I have found the remedy recommendation feature helpful, as it:
- Provides multiple recommendations towards the remedy of vulnerabilities.
- Allows me to prioritize efforts and utilize effective technical resources.
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Dr Trust Tshepo Mapoka
Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at CIA Botswana
Nessus' most valuable feature is vulnerability management because it helps to discover vulnerabilities proactively and integrates with patch management solutions so you can push patches.
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ParveshDhurmea
Assistant Engineer at Harel Mallac Technologies Ltd
Tenable Nessus has a good performance, is very user-friendly, and is easy to use.
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Reviewer843121
Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the self-updating engine.
View full review »Among the most valuable features are scanning for vulnerabilities and the reporting. The reporting templates are okay. I like that I can see all the hosts with different vulnerabilities. I can export reports to Excel to adjust them and it's a convenient way to send them to my manager. We actually use the report feature to identify all the vulnerabilities on all the hosts.
- The prioritization is done quickly and is good.
- Their VPR is good.
- I'm also able to find its features easily.
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reviewer1596903
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is very good at vulnerability management. It gives you great visibility of visibilities.
The solution is stable.
The initial setup is very straightforward.
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reviewer1496742
Chief Hacking Officer at a security firm with 1-10 employees
Out of the box, the product works well for us, so it's not a tool that we need to customize very much.
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Thomas Kung
Senior Consultant at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We wanted to do a lot of Hardening and we have to make sure that all endpoints are up to the certain Hardening standard and we propose the CIS benchmark to do this. That's why we use Tenable to do scanning frequency and to ensure the quality of the endpoints.
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reviewer1642203
Cyber Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's a user friendly solution and I like the dashboards.
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reviewer1453023
CSSP Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The automatic scanner and scheduler are pretty cool.
The interface is excellent. It makes it very user friendly and easy to navigate for the most part.
It's a pretty solid product. I pretty much like almost all of it.
The product is pretty problem-free. We don't have any real issues with it.
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Infraprojman67
Senior Infrastructure Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
The feature I find most valuable is the vulnerability reporting.
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Reviewer843121
Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I have chosen Nessus because it's very simple to use and install. Depending on the number of assets you scan, Nessus is also an affordable solution. Products such as Tenable IO and RapidLab, can become expensive depending on the number of IPs. So Nessus Pro is perfect for my needs right now.
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reviewer1687830
Information Technology Security Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I have experience with it on my attack stations, and it's pretty good to optimize. Personally, I think Nessus is quite a good product.
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reviewer1502784
VP - Risks, Audits & InfoSec at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The features of Tenable Nessus that I have found most valuable are its reliability and its ability to collate a dependable output, where we are able to get the same vulnerability when we test manually. The output is quite reliable.
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KalaiarasuSanthirasekeran
Security Professional at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I find the features that are most valuable are the policies that help us identify the vulnerabilities. These policies are then used for scanning and identifying instabilities.
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reviewer1157040
CyberSecurity Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The scanning capabilities are very good.
The integration is very easy.
Its initial setup was simple and straightforward.
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1389510
Information Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This solution is easy to use.
It has a powerful set of features.
Tenable integrates well with other solutions such as SIEM and batch management. This is one of the things that we do to add value for our customers.
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Tenable Nessus
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Tenable Nessus. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.