Nessus

About Nessus

Nessus is an industry leading vulnerability assessment tool that can help you automate vulnerability scanning, save time during compliance cycles, and engage your IT staff. Nessus, which is powered by Tenable Research, provides the industry's largest vulnerability coverage, with new detections being introduced to the platform on a regular basis. It offers predictive prioritization that prioritizes the most essential security concerns and quickly comprehends and effectively conveys the top ten high, critical, and most common vulnerabilities discovered after a scan. By integrating data science, threat intelligence, and vulnerability information, the Tenable VPR (Vulnerability Priority Rating) lets you home in on the most critical vulnerabilities. In order to target your repair efforts, it provides suggestions on which vulnerabilities represent the highest risk. It additionally offers pre-configured templates for a variety of IT and mobile assets that are supplied out of the box, ranging from patch management effectiveness to configuration audits, to assist you rapidly identify where you have vulnerabilities. Furthermore, you can create reports quickly using customizable views, such as specific vulnerability categories, vulnerabilities by host, or vulnerabilities by plugin.