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Nessus from Tenable

The de facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment

Value Proposition

Problem

Scarce resources, limited time, a constantly changing attack surface –it’s difficult for security practitioners on the front lines to keep pace with attackers. You need a fast, easy way to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities.

Solution

Trusted by more than 27,000 organizations worldwide, Nessus® Professional automates point-in-timeassessments to help quickly identify and fix vulnerabilities, including software flaws, missing patches, malware, and misconfigurations, across a variety of operatingsystems, devices and applications

Features

Nessus has the industry’s lowest false positive rate with six-sigma accuracy (measured at .32 defects per 1 million scans)
Nessus has the deepest and broadest coveragewith more than 130,000 plugins, coverage for more than 50,000 CVE and over 100 new plugins released weekly within 24 hours of vulnerability disclosure
Nessus is trusted by more than 27,000 organizations globally, including 2 million downloads. 50% of the Fortune 500 and 25% of the Global 2000rely on Nessus.
Tenable Research works closely with the security community to discover new vulnerabilities (wehavediscovered more than 100 zero-day vulnerabilities over the past threeyears)
With more than 130,000 plugins automatically updating in real-time, get timely information for the latest vulnerabilities and malware to shrink the time to assess, research and remediate issues.

Gain insight into potential malware running on hosts throughout your environment via seamless integration with multiple commercial threat intelligence feeds.
Get broad and deep visibility into vulnerabilities with every assessment. Nessus offerscoverage for over 47,000 unique IT assets
Built for security practitioners, by security practitioners, Nessus was created with the single focus of providing an intuitive experience for security pros on the front lines to find and fix vulnerabilities, faster and more confidently
Out-of-the-box, pre-configured templates for IT and mobile assets, including configuration audits and patchmanagement effectiveness, help you quickly understand where youhave vulnerabilities
Intelligent vulnerability assessment with Live Results