Nessus Use Cases
Additional Information
Nessus was the industry's first vulnerability assessment tool and it continues to lead the industry today in CVE coverage, detection accuracy and product adoption. Nessus identifies exposures caused by vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in traditional IT assets, but also extends that functionality to address the modern attack surface.
Nessus, Tenable.io, and Tenable.sc leverage the power of the Nessus scan engine, which can be configured to do far more than its common use cases.
This web page provides additional information on those use cases in the form of blog posts, web pages and videos so that end-users, consultants and MSSP providers can get a better understanding of these use cases in order to deliver additional services to organizations to improve their vulnerability and risk awareness.
Asset Discovery
Penetration Testing Reconnaissance
Vulnerability Assessment
Third-Party Integration
Data Discovery, Classification, DLP, Insider Threat
Active Directory (AD) Checks
Version and Change Control
Unsupported OS and Third-Party Software
Prioritize Top Threats
Immediate Results from Updated Plugins
Threat Hunting with YARA
Scanning Deployment Flexibility
Audit Cloud Assets
White Label and Customizable Reports
Network Infrastructure and Database Configuration Audits
Audit Security Frameworks and Standards for Compliance
External Attack Surface Discovery
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Analysis
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