Nessus
by Tenable · Cybersecurity · Columbia, United States
Industry-standard vulnerability scanner.
What Nessus does
- Unlimited vulnerability assessments you can use anywhere
- Configuration, compliance, and security audits
- Web application scans (5 FQDNs with the option to add more)
- External attack surface scans
- Unlimited IT vulnerability assessments
- Vulnerability scoring with CVSS v4, EPSS and VPR (for Top 10 Vulns)
- Configurable reports
What Nessus is used for
- Find flaws and misconfigurations across systems and apps
- Prioritize high-risk vulnerabilities using CVSS and EPSS scoring
- Run web application scans
- Scan external attack surface
- Guide remediation through workflows
About Tenable
Vulnerability scanning and exposure management platform (Nessus, Tenable One) across IT, cloud, identity and OT attack surfaces.
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Also by Tenable
- Tenable One: Unified exposure management across IT, cloud, identity and web apps.
- Tenable Security Center: On-prem vulnerability management and analytics.
- Tenable Vulnerability Management: Cloud-based vulnerability management
- Tenable Cloud Security: Cloud-native application protection and posture management
- Tenable Identity Exposure: Active Directory and Entra ID exposure detection
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