Lavesh K.
LK
Lavesh K.
L1 NOC Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Nessus Review"
5/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

Tenable Nessus is versatile and flexible to use. This software can be used to security scans, network scanning, vulnerability assessment and scanning. It's interface is user friendly and anyone can use it very easily. It has ability to automate scanning and reporting tasks. This software can help to organization for identifying vulnerability, threats to their systems and networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

It can be expensive and it may use in larger organization that requires high functionality and support. It is designed for user friendly interface but still it requires a knowledge or training to get useful. It consumes more time for scanning. It up to individual decision whether they require this software or not on the basis of their software requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospitality
UH
Verified User in Hospitality
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Leading and best vulnerability scanning tool"
4/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

1. Tenable Nessus is always up-to-date with the vulnerabilities database which scans for all the latest vulnerabilities.

2. They provide decent customer support.

3. It solves the implementation in 2 ways - agent-based and credentials-based.

4. It provides an interactive and nice GUI as well along with easy integration with other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

It cannot pull asset tags itself. We need to set up a whole different automation to ingest custom asset tags into Tenable nessus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vidhi P.
VP
Vidhi P.
Cyber Security Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Nessus scanner"
5/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

Tenable nessus scanner is user friendly and the UI of this tool is soo easy to use that anyon can understand and use it effectively. It is best vulnerability scanning and network scanning tool. The scanning and reporting task can be automated which is the best feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

Sometimes it uses more time for the scanning and reporting otherwise this is the best for vulnerability scanning and network scanning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PS
Paul S.
Systems Administrator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Tenable Nessus Pro works well to help us achieve PCI-DSS compliance"
5/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

Tenable Nessus Pro works well to help us achieve PCI-DSS compliance. We scan our servers monthly and remediate any vulnerabilities as needed. When it comes to our annual PCI-DSS audit we provide the Nessus Pro reports to our QSA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

There is nothing to dislike about Tenable Nessus Pro. It gives us all the information needed to find and remediate any vulnerabilities on our development and production servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brijveer S.
BS
Brijveer S.
SOC Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Tenable Nessus"
5/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

Tenable Nessus is very efficient and effective tool which is used for security, network, vulnerability scanning and managing. Its interface is very user friendly. The scanning and reporting is automated which increases the productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

Sometimes we have to fetch report for a longer period then scanning and reporting takes lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JE
Janakiraman E.
Information Technology Security Specialist
Security and Investigations
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Nessus pro"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

Able to scan any type of device with IP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

We canot do Mobile applications testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul W.
PW
Paul W.
Project Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Tenable Nessus - great and flexible vulnerability assessment tool"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

Pluggins are updated very frequently to include latest vulnerabilities with suggestions of how to address them.

API and interfaces to export the scan results works well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

Sometimes we don't get notifications of updates to the prduct and therefore we fall behind latest updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
""Nessus review - One of the best tool for on-prem VM""
4.5/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

Nessus in the Pro version is limited to one user. Not follow up or comparison between latest scan and recent." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VK
Vivek K.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Tenable Nessus Review"
4/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

The Advance scan functionality is best and does a deep scan and it is more in depth than a normal scan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

Most of its features will be locked for normal public and it doesnot even comes with a professional suite . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek Kumar G.
AG
Abhishek Kumar G.
Associate Consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Tenable Nessus"
5/5
What do you like best about Tenable Nessus?

1. Portability: Install on Laptop and use any where required.

2.Quick: Quickly completes scan.

3.Easy to use.

4. Cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Nessus?

Lesser options for reports and dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.