Sold by: Tenable, Inc.
Nessus provides vulnerability analysis, patch confirmation, configuration assessment, and sensitive data identification for EC2 environments and instances.
Sold by: Tenable, Inc.
Overview
Nessus is the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Trusted by more than 27,000 organizations worldwide, Nessus provides vulnerability analysis, patch confirmation, configuration assessment, and sensitive data identification for EC2 environments and instances. With a continuously updated library of more than 109,000 plugins, Nessus delivers the most in-depth coverage and accuracy to the marketplace.
Highlights
- Prevent attacks by identifying vulnerabilities in the attack surface, allowing IT professionals to mitigate them before attacks occur
- Leverage policy creation wizards and scan scheduling for easy configuration and management
- Ensure ongoing vulnerability and IT asset coverage with daily updates
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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AmazonLinux 20240809
Pricing
Pricing and entitlements for this product are managed outside of AWS Marketplace through an external billing relationship between you and the vendor. You activate the product by supplying an existing license purchased outside of AWS Marketplace, while AWS provides the infrastructure required to launch the product. Subscriptions have no end date and may be cancelled any time. However, the cancellation won't affect the status of an active license if it was purchased outside of AWS Marketplace.
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Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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No refunds
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Once the instance is running, point your browser to https://
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Customer reviews
Deepsan V.
Tenable Nessus professional
Reviewed on May 08, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Nessus has one of the largest libraries of vulnerability and configuration checks, covering a wide range of systems, devices, and applications.
Despite its comprehensive feature set, Nessus is known for its user-friendly interface, which can help users get up and running quickly.
Despite its comprehensive feature set, Nessus is known for its user-friendly interface, which can help users get up and running quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Nessus is known for its comprehensive vulnerability scanning capabilities, it can sometimes produce false positives, which can lead to unnecessary work for security teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nessus provides comprehensive visibility into vulnerabilities across an organization's entire IT environment, which can help security teams prioritize remediation efforts and reduce risk.
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Pratik S.
Nessus is one of the powerful tool in scanning vulnerabilities.
Reviewed on Apr 27, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The format of the report with vulnerabilities and it's associated CVE with a detailed explanation is really commendable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The limited availability of features in a free Nessus software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Unlike other scanning tools like nmap, nessus provides a detailed view of vulnerabilities with a risk score and methods to exploit. It also outlines the exact service where the vulnerability is found.
Divi N.
Best free to use vulnerability scanner
Reviewed on Mar 30, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
-Free to use
-Has community version where you can use Nessus for free to some extent
-Great user interface
-It also identifies miscofinguration in code
-Versatile tool
-Great dashboards and reporting mechanism
-Has community version where you can use Nessus for free to some extent
-Great user interface
-It also identifies miscofinguration in code
-Versatile tool
-Great dashboards and reporting mechanism
What do you dislike about the product?
-I have only used free community version and it has quite a few limitation with number of hosts and scans etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have used Nessus in past for red teaming and penitration testing puposes in past. it really helps in discovering vulnerabilities at early stage. It also provides detailed vulnerability analysis and reports which can be used be for pathcing the same. It has very clean dashboard that makes it very easy to present the current status of vulenrability to the management,
Ankit J.
Grat vulnerability scanning tool
Reviewed on Jan 17, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Its reporting contains wonderful useful details and easy to understand. This tool also help to get refence link for reported vulnerabilty. support from vendor in really awesome.
What do you dislike about the product?
while selecting License need to bebit careful, as required features needs to available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it is helping to scan vulnerability in my hybrid environment. also this is integrayed with HCL BigFix.
Information Technology and Services
"Nessus review - One of the best tool for on-prem VM"
Reviewed on Oct 05, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I think Nessus is a best and versatile vulnerability assessment tool that helps organizations to manage their security risks. With comprehensive coverage, advanced scanning techniques, it provides accurate vulnerability detection.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nessus in the Pro version is limited to one user. Not follow up or comparison between latest scan and recent."
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Nessus for On-Prem Vulnerability management it fulfills our requirements.