Introduction

The Nessus^® vulnerability scanner is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs and across physically separate networks.

Nessus iPhone Application

The Nessus iPhone application is available at no cost on the App Store and is located under the productivity category. It allows users to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the iPhone® and iPod touch® user interface (requires iOS 4.0 or later). Features of the Nessus iPhone application include remote starting, stopping and pausing of network scans as well as the ability to analyze scan results. This mobility allows a security professional who is responding to an incident to quickly log into a Nessus scanner during a meeting to find a host with a given vulnerability, thereby improving the efficiency of the Incident Response process.

World Renowned Research

Nessus is supported by a world renowned research team and has the largest vulnerability knowledge base possible, making it suitable for even the most complex environments.

Nessus Licensing

Commercial organizations that use the Nessus vulnerability scanner must purchase a ProfessionalFeed subscription to scan their network, obtain support, updates to their database of vulnerability checks and compliance auditing. Each ProfessionalFeed costs $1,200 per year per Nessus scanner and can be purchased from Tenable's ProfessionalFeed Partners or directly from Tenable's E-commerce site.

Nessus Hardware and Virtual Appliances

Tenable offers a hardened, web-based appliance for easy deployment and operation of Nessus. The appliance is available to all ProfessionalFeed subscribers as a VMware virtual image and also available on a variety of hardware appliances.

Enterprise Management

When Nessus is managed with Tenable's SecurityCenter, an enterprise can perform full life-cycle vulnerability and configuration management. Organizations can communicate recommendations to the responsible parties, track remediations and verify security patches and required configurations.

Tenable, ImmunitySec and DSquare Offering for Pen-Testers

Tenable Network Security partnered with ImmunitySec and DSquare Security to offer the Nessus ProfessionalFeed, Canvas and DSquare Exploitation pack as a single commercial offering. Click here for more information.