Tenable Nessus

About

Tenable Nessus is a vulnerability assessment solution that helps you expose and close weaknesses across a constantly changing attack surface. It is designed to discover security issues such as flaws, missing patches, and misconfigurations across operating systems, devices, and applications, and to help you prioritize critical threats using built-in compliance checks, CVSS and EPSS risk scoring, and easy-to-read reports. It also provides remediation guidance and guided workflows to help close gaps faster and streamline collaboration across IT and security teams.

The website describes Nessus as the most comprehensive vulnerability scanner on the market, with unlimited vulnerability assessments that can be used anywhere. It states that Nessus offers 117K+ CVEs and 319K+ plugins, with over 100 new plugins released weekly, and that Tenable's Zero Day Research provides 24/7 updates on new and emergent vulnerabilities. Nessus Professional and Nessus Expert are listed as options, each including configuration, compliance, and security audits, configurable reports, and web application and external attack surface scans, with support and training available as add-ons.

The website notes that Nessus is trusted by tens of thousands of organizations, with over 4 million downloads worldwide, and that it powers the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. A free trial of Nessus Professional is offered.