Nessus Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

This product is one of the best network scanners on the market. After properly installing the server with the scanner in the network and placing the credentials of the administrator, the system works perfectly. Vulnerability scanning and compliance scanning are executed properly, all the standards included in Nessus are very useful.

The vulnerability scanner is not totally accurate in some situations and some results must be checked to verify the vulnerability. Therefore, it is possible that there are false positives. Many times the supplements are not updated in a timely manner and this hurts even more with the false positives generated.

Tenable products dictates market standard for securty assesment. Nessus Profesional is part of that family. It has simillar capabilities like Tenable.io but can be run inside your datacenter as a stand alone solution. It's easy to configure, reliable and what's most importand it will give you a hint how to solve every voulnerability detected inside your infrastructure.

It misses some interesting predefined reports and usefull configuration options comparing to Tenable.io.

Nessus gives you scan presets that are designed for each compliance body such as PCI, HIPAA, NIST etc. Administrators can easily select the patch level and run the vulnerability assessments. And even you can customize it as per your requirement too.

Nessus scanner becomes bit laggy when it comes to scanning of nodes with large data sets and applications.

It has up to date plugins to scan latest vulnerabilities or malwares are in the market. Plugins are updated every week to cover latest vulnerabilities. It can scan the scope system based on various standards like PCI DSS and HIPAA which other scanners in the market don't have. It performs credentials scans which other scanners like Qualys,Openvas doesn’t offer.

Nessus doesn’t detect any active protection on scope system which can block the credential scan. It cannot scan device if the 2FA is implemented on the scope system.

Trust on leader on VM market and movement Plugins updated daily so, threats and breaches can be identified as they are scanned into the environment Using Nessus Manager you can deploy scanners and agents across subnets, you can schedule multiple scans in your environment Best in class configuration audit data base for compliance check Credential and uncredential scans Agents for sensitive devices or services that can be affected by an active scan or are in transit

Nessus in the Pro version is limited to one user Not follow up or comparison between latest scan and recent IP address Change on the network or location increase the IP count even when it is the same device reports customizing can be difficult depending on what is expected to have invasive scan. you are not aware that a specific device or service can be sensitive to Nessus untill you finish with the service stopped or the performance of a service gets compromised.