Nessus Professional Vulnerability Assessment PDF
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This document provides an overview of Nessus Professional, a vulnerability assessment solution designed for security practitioners. It emphasizes the tool's accuracy, breadth of coverage, and ease of use, highlighting its ability to quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities across various operating systems, devices, and applications. Dynamic updates help streamline the assessment process.
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DATA SHEET NESSUS PROFESSIONAL THE INDUSTRY BREADTH AND DEPTH STANDARD FOR OF COVERAGE VULNERABILITY Tenable Re...
DATA SHEET NESSUS PROFESSIONAL THE INDUSTRY BREADTH AND DEPTH STANDARD FOR OF COVERAGE VULNERABILITY Tenable Research works closely with the security ASSESSMENT community to discover new vulnerabilities and provide insights to help organizations mature their vulnerability assessment practices. Tenable’s zero day team has Scarce resources, limited time, a constantly changing discovered more than 100 zero-day vulnerabilities over attack surface – it’s a challenge for security practitioners the past three years. on the front lines to keep pace with attackers. You need a fast, easy way to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities. Nessus® Professional automates point-in-time DYNAMIC AND assessments to help quickly identify and fix vulnerabilities, including software flaws, missing patches, malware, and AUTOMATIC PLUGIN misconfigurations, across a variety of operating systems, UPDATES SHRINKS THE TIME TO ASSESS devices and applications. NESSUS IS #1 IN AND REMEDIATE VULNERABILITY With more than 157,000 plugins that automatically update ASSESSMENT in real-time, Nessus helps you save valuable time to assess, research and remediate issues. #1 in Accuracy For efficiency and accuracy, plugins are dynamically Nessus has the industry’s lowest false positive rate with six- compiled. This reduces the Nessus Plugin database sigma accuracy (measured at.32 defects per 1 million scans). footprint by up to 75% while increasing scan performance. #1 in Coverage Custom plugins allow you to create specific checks to assess the security of applications unique to your Nessus has the deepest and broadest coverage with more organization. than 62,000 CVE and over 100 new plugins released weekly within 24 hours of vulnerability disclosure. Custom audit files help you verify your organization’s configuration requirements and compliance standards. #1 in Adoption Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations globally, including 2 million downloads. 50% of the Fortune 500 and more than 30% of the Global 2000 rely on Nessus technology. “Well-organized interface which classifies plugins in a neat, structured manner.” – Nessus user Each automatic Plugin update provides you with a simple set of remediation actions, and a fast and easy way to see if your systems are vulnerable. CONSULTANTS Insights through threat intelligence feeds Gain insight into potential malware and ransomware running on hosts throughout your environment via seamless integration with multiple commercial threat intelligence feeds. LOVE NESSUS Nessus is ideal for security consultants LEVERAGE THE POWER OF because it offers: PREDICTIVE PRIORITIZATION Unlimited assessments No limit to the number of IPs or assessments. Take advantage of Tenable’s Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) to help you zero in on the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk specific to your Easily transferable license environment. VPR combines Tenable-collected vulnerability data with Quickly and easily transfer your third-party vulnerability and threat data and analyzes them together with the license between computers. advanced data science algorithm developed by Tenable Research. Leverage the Nessus on Raspberry Pi option for high portability and Broad, deep visibility into vulnerabilities ease of use. Get broad and deep visibility into vulnerabilities with every assessment. Nessus offers coverage for over 47,000 unique IT assets, including: Configurable reports Easily customize reports with client Network devices (e.g., Cisco, Juniper, HP, F5 and SonicWall) name and logo. Email directly to the client after every assessment. MobileIron and VMware AirWatch to assess mobile devices for vulnerabilities against policies Operating systems (e.g., Windows, MacOS, and Linux) Applications ranging from small driver update utilities to complex Office productivity suites Data Sheet / Nessus / 091021 EASE OF USE Drilldown & Troubleshooting As networks become more sophisticated and complex, zeroing Built for security practitioners, by security practitioners, in on potential issues have become increasingly time consuming. Nessus was created with the single focus of providing an The Nessus packet capture feature enables a powerful intuitive experience for security pros on the front lines to debugging capability to troubleshoot scanning issues. find and fix vulnerabilities, faster and more confidently. Laser focus with Grouped View UX updates has made navigation and user experience easier Similar issues or categories of vulnerabilities are grouped and more intuitive. Nessus’ new resource center provides together and presented in one thread. Snoozing allows users to users with relevant information at their fingertips. User select issues to disappear from view for a specified period of specific guides provide actionable tips and guidance based time. This helps with prioritization, allowing you to focus only on on the operations and functions being performed. the issues you are working on at a given time. Quickly see vulnerabilities with pre-built policies Portable and Flexible and templates For portability and ease of use, Nessus is now available Out-of-the-box, pre-configured templates for IT and mobile on Raspberry Pi. This is specifically useful for pen testers, assets, including configuration audits, help you quickly consultants and others whose job function requires mobility understand where you have vulnerabilities. between locations. ADVANCED SUPPORT AVAILABLE Nessus Professional customers can access email, portal, chat and phone support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with a subscription to the Advanced level of technical support. This will also help ensure faster response times and resolution. Full details about support plans can be found here. More than 450 compliance and configuration templates allow you to audit configuration compliance against CIS benchmarks and other best practices. ABOUT TENABLE Tenable®, Inc. is the Cyber Exposure company. Over 30,000 Intelligent vulnerability assessment with Live Results organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand Live Results performs intelligent vulnerability assessment and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus®, Tenable in offline mode with every plugin update – without having extended its expertise in vulnerabilities to deliver the world’s first to run a scan. Just log in and see the results of potential platform to see and secure any digital asset on any computing vulnerabilities based on your scan history. With a click of a platform. Tenable customers include more than 50 percent of the button, you can run a scan to validate the presence of the Fortune 500, more than 30 percent of the Global 2000 and large vulnerability, creating a faster, more efficient process for government agencies. Learn more at www.tenable.com. assessing, prioritizing and remediating issues. Configure reports easily Create reports based on customized views (e.g., specific For More Information: Please visit tenable.com vulnerability types, vulnerabilities by host/plugin, by team/ Contact Us: Please email us at [email protected] client) – in a variety of formats (HTML, CSV and Nessus XML). or visit tenable.com/contact COPYRIGHT 2021 TENABLE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TENABLE, TENABLE.IO, NESSUS, ALSID, INDEGY, LUMIN, ASSURE, AND LOG CORRELATION ENGINE ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF TENABLE, INC. OR ITS AFFILIATES. TENABLE.SC, TENABLE.OT, TENABLE.AD, EXPOSURE.AI, AND THE CYBER EXPOSURE COMPANY ARE TRADEMARKS OF TENABLE, INC. OR ITS AFFILIATES. ALL OTHER PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ARE TRADEMARKS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. Data Sheet / Nessus / 091021