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Nessus is a cloud-based vulnerability assessment solution designed to help security practitioners identity and resolve vulnerabilities to protect organizations against various security risks. It comes with pre-defined templates which can be customized by users to scan for critical vulnerabilities.

Tenable.io is a container security software that helps businesses assess vulnerabilities, prioritize remediation actions, monitor assets, and more on a centralized platform. The automated inspection module enables staff members to detect malware, handle hierarchy intelligence, and assess container images by layer.