Nessus - Vulnerability Scanners

Posted by Deepanker Verma Monday, November 19, 2012 0 comments

Nessus is one of the most popular vulnerability scanners particularly for UNIX system. Initially, This scanner was launched as open source tool but they closed it back in 2005. Now this tool is available as premium version and costs $1200 per year for single license. 
Nessus vulnerability scanner

This tool gets constant update with more than 46,000 plugins. Main features of this tool includes remote and local security testing, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and web based security testing. This tool is supported by a world-renowned research team and has largest vulnerability database.

Opensource version of this tool has also been is the development who still develop it under the name OpenVAS.

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