Nessus

Nessus was designed from the ground up with a thorough grasp of how security professionals operate. Every aspect of Nessus for Windows PC is intended to make vulnerability evaluation simple, straightforward, and intuitive. As a result, it takes less time and effort to assess, prioritize, and address issues. The assets and vulnerabilities in your network are always evolving. Obtaining a complete view of your network is half the battle. Trust the #1 vulnerability assessment program to keep you one step ahead of attackers. 

Pre-configured templates are offered for a variety of IT and mobile assets, ranging from configuration audits to patch management effectiveness, to assist you in swiftly identifying vulnerabilities. The Nessus Vulnerability Scanner offers over 450 compliance and configuration templates for auditing configuration compliance to CIS benchmarks and best practices. 

Overview

Easily generate reports based on custom views, such as specific vulnerability types, host vulnerabilities, or plugin vulnerabilities. Create reports in a variety of formats (HTML, CSV, and.nessus XML) and simply customize them by team or client, which can then be emailed with each scan. 

With each plugin update, Live Results automatically performs an offline vulnerability assessment, revealing potential vulnerabilities based on your scan history. From here, you can easily run a scan to confirm the presence of the vulnerability, which speeds up the correct detection and prioritization of concerns. 

Similar concerns or categories of vulnerabilities are gathered together and presented in a single thread, which reduces the time required to study and prioritize issues for resolution. Snoozing allows you to make specific difficulties disappear from view for a set amount of time. So you only concentrate on the issues that are relevant at the time. 

It finds vulnerabilities that require attention through fast, accurate scanning with few false positives. Tenable researchers use various intelligence sources to create plugins that provide timely protection against the current threats. 47,000+ CVEs, the most in the business. Tenable's Nessus app scans more technologies and finds more vulnerabilities than competing solutions. It is affordable for any consultant or team and offers thorough vulnerability scanning as well as unlimited assessments for a single modest payment. 

Features & Highlights

• A comprehensive assessment of your security level. 
• Up-to-date security vulnerability database. 
• The security checks database is updated on a daily basis, and all the most recent security checks are available here and can be retrieved with the command nessus-update-plugins. An RSS feed of all the most recent security checks allows you to track which plugins are added and when. 
• Security is provided both remotely and locally. 
• Traditional network security scanners focus solely on the services listening on the network. Now that viruses and worms are spreading due to weaknesses in mail clients or web browsers, this definition of security is becoming obsolete. 
• Elegant architecture. 
• Extremely scalable 
• It has been designed to readily scale from a single CPU computer with little memory to a quad-CPU monster with gigabytes of RAM. The more power you provide the software, the faster it can scan your network. 
  Plug-ins 
• Each security test is implemented as an external plugin written in NASL. This means updating. It does not require downloading untrustworthy binaries from the internet. Each NASL plugin can be read and adjusted to help you understand the results of a report. 
• NASL 
• The Security Scanner incorporates NASL (Nessus Attack Scripting Language), a language designed to make writing security tests simple and quick. NASL plugins execute in a controlled environment on top of a virtual computer, making Nessus a highly secure scanner. 

Others 

• Smart service acknowledgment. 
• It does not believe that the target hosts will follow the IANA-assigned port numbers. This implies it will recognize an FTP server operating on a non-standard port (such as 31337) or a web server running on port 8080. Nessus was the first vulnerability scanner for PCs to provide this feature for all security checks (and many others have since replicated it). 
• Multiple services. 
• If a host runs the same service again or more, it will test each one. Believe it or not, several scanners on the market still believe that a host can only support one server type at a time. 
• Full SSL support. 
• It can test SSL-enabled services including https, smtps, imaps, and more. You can even provide the app with a certificate so that it can function in a PKI-field environment. Once again, it was among the first security scanners on the market to include this capability. 
• Non-destructive or thorough. 
• It allows you to choose between running a conventional non-destructive security audit and throwing everything at a remote host to assess how well it withstands intruder attacks. Many scanners believe that their users are too unskilled to make such a decision, thus they only give "safe" checks. 
• The largest user base. 
• The most pessimistic calculations, based on daily downloads, give the app at least 50,000 users globally, but there could be more - after all, Nessus is downloaded over 2,000 times every day! 
• Our large user base enables us to obtain the most accurate input on security checks, allowing us to provide security checks that are dependable, nondestructive, and free of false positives.