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Vulnerability assessment for your evolving attack surface

Stay one step ahead of attackers with insight into vulnerabilities and security weaknesses across your evolving attack surface.

Tenable Nessus Expert, built for the modern attack surface, provides the most comprehensive solution for assessing vulnerabilities in IT devices, internet-facing assets, cloud infrastructure and web applications.

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Knowledge is power

As the attack surface evolves, you need a vulnerability assessment solution that goes beyond just your traditional IT assets. With Nessus Expert, you can also secure your web applications and cloud infrastructure—and gain visibility into your attack surface. Trust the #1 vulnerability assessment solution for peace of mind in a constantly changing security world. Trust Nessus.

Discover and assess your IT assets

Fortify your web applications

Secure cloud infrastructure before deployment

Gain visibility into your internet-facing assets

Vulnerability assessment for the modern attack surface. Do more with Nessus Expert.

Nessus Expert

Nessus Pro

Designed for

Pen testers, consultants, developers and SMBs

Pen testers, consultants and SMBs

Real-time vulnerability updates

Vulnerability scanning

Web application scanning

Ability to add fully qualified domain names (FQDN)

External attack surface scanning

5 domains per quarter

Ability to add external attack surface domains

Scan cloud infrastructure

Compliance audits of cloud infrastructure

500 pre-built policies

#1 in vulnerability assessment. Trusted by customers.

Built by practitioners

Nessus is built from the ground-up with a deep understanding of how security practitioners work. Every feature in Nessus is designed to make vulnerability assessment simple, easy and intuitive. The result: less time and effort to assess, prioritize and remediate issues. Learn more about the features here.

Deploy on any platform

Nessus can be deployed on a variety of platforms, including Raspberry Pi. Regardless of where you are, where you need to go or how distributed your environment is, Nessus is fully portable.

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Efficiency and accuracy

Dynamically compiled plugins increase scan performance and efficiency, enabling faster completion of the first scan and time to value.
Web application scanning

Safely scan web applications to accurately identify vulnerabilities in custom application code and third party components.
Gain visibility into your internet-facing attack surface

You can't protect what you can't see. Find and assess internet-connected assets before they find you.
Secure cloud infrastructure before deployment

Uncover security issues as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) before it’s too late.
Zero in on threats that matter most

With market-leading coverage, Nessus knows every vulnerability. The power of Nessus lets you prioritize vulns by leveraging a variety of inputs, including EPSS, CVSS, and Tenable VPR to then triage and address the threats that matter most.
Pre-built policies and templates

More than 450 pre-configured templates help you quickly understand where you have vulnerabilities. Easily audit configuration compliance against CIS benchmarks and other best practices.
Customizable reporting & troubleshooting

Customizable reporting capabilities can be optimized to meet specific needs and are exportable in formats that are most suited for your security process.
Live results

Live Results automatically performs an offline vulnerability assessment with every plugin update, showing you where you may have vulnerabilities based on your scan history. From here you can easily run a scan to validate the presence of the vulnerability that accelerates accurate detection and prioritization of issues.
Ease of use

Nessus is designed with an intuitive approach to navigation and user experience. This includes a resource center to guide you with actionable tips and guidance on the next steps to take.
Grouped view

Similar issues or categories of vulnerabilities are grouped together and presented in one thread, simplifying the time to research and prioritize issues for remediation. Snoozing lets you select specific issues to disappear from view for a specified period of time. So you only focus on the issues that matter at that time.

Nessus Expert benefits

Easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use

A fully portable vulnerability assessment solution that can be deployed virtually anywhere. Policy creation is simple and only requires a few clicks to scan an entire corporate network.

Advanced detection means more protection

With 70K CVEs, the most in the industry, Nessus scans more technologies and uncovers more vulnerabilities than competing solutions.

Cost effective for companies of all sizes

Cost effective for any consultant or team, Nessus provides complete vulnerability scanning with unlimited assessments for one low price.

Accurate visibility into your networks

Nessus identifies the vulnerabilities that need attention with high-speed, accurate scanning—and highlights which vulnerabilities should be addressed first.

The power of the Tenable Zero Day Research team

Tenable researchers leverage extensive intel sources. Find and provide protection from the latest threats via new plugins.

The power of Tenable grows with you

With operability across Tenable’s product portfolio, easily migrate to other Tenable products to isolate and eradicate the priority exposures that put your business at risk—from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to OT and everywhere in between.

"Nessus is the ultimate time saver for vulnerability scanning."

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Key use cases for Nessus

Nessus is the world’s No. 1 vulnerability scanning solution. Learn how Tenable customers put it to work in a range of critical situations.

Network pen tester

Cybersecurity education programs faculty and students

Consultant

SMB Security admin

Network pen testers

Network pen testers play a unique role in the IT security ecosystem.

Before executing full breach simulations, pen testers use Nessus first to find where those major vulnerabilities are hiding.

Cybersecurity faculty and students

Cybersecurity education programs faculty and students persona

Cybersecurity students are invaluable to this highly specialized field.

Professors use Nessus with cybersecurity students in vulnerability assessment and management courses as a foundational tool to get them up to speed on the essentials of uncovering vulnerabilities.

Consultants

Cybersecurity consultants play pivotal roles in a constantly shifting threat and vulnerability landscape.

Cybersecurity consultants use Nessus to scour clients’ networks for vulnerabilities and create comprehensive reports that summarize security posture and contain key suggestions for remediation.

SMB security admins

In years past, small and medium-sized businesses might have considered themselves effectively immune to cyberattacks.

With Nessus, even small companies that lack full-time cybersecurity staff can stay on top of vulnerabilities, customizing comprehensive scans to meet unique business needs.

To learn more about Nessus features and functionality, visit our Nessus documentation page.
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