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Vulnerability Scans

The Tenable Network Security Nessus® vulnerability scanner provides patch, configuration, and compliance auditing; mobile, malware, and botnet discovery; sensitive data identification; and many other features.

With a rich 15-year history, Nessus is the industry’s most widely deployed vulnerability, configuration, and compliance assessment product. Nessus provides high-speed asset discovery and profiling, patch/configuration/compliance auditing, sensitive data discovery, patch management integration, and so much more.

Key Nessus features:

      Agentless auditing of configurations, patches, and web applications

      58,000+ vulnerability and configuration checks (plugins) – new plugins updated daily

      Lists BYOD/mobile devices accessing the corporate network, device information, and vulnerabilities

      Audits the VMware platform and software running on it

      Detects malicious processes and botnets

      Automatic post-scan analysis and customized monitoring Tenable Network Security® provides Nessus® for different uses:

        Nessus and Nessus Perimeter Service™ subscriptions for commercial organizations and enterprises

        Nessus evaluations for commercial organizations

        Nessus Home for personal use in a non-commercial, home network