Nessus Family of Products
The Industry Standard for Vulnerability Scanning
With more than 17,000 customers worldwide and 10,000,000 downloads to date, Nessus® is the industry’s most widely-deployed vulnerability and configuration assessment product.
The Nessus family includes:
- Nessus ProfessionalFeed® for scanning internal IP addresses
- Nessus Perimeter Service™ for auditing Internet-facing IPs and PCI compliance certification
- Commercial, evaluation, and home editions
- Nessus Auditor Bundles: Savings of up to $800 on ProfessionalFeed and Perimeter Service, training, and certification
Many security and compliance professionals use ProfessionalFeed and Perimeter Service together for a 360-degree view of their security posture.
Nessus ProfessionalFeed
The Nessus vulnerability scanner is fueled by Nessus ProfessionalFeed, a continuously-updated plugin library of 55,000+ vulnerability and configuration checks. Nessus provides deep vulnerability analysis, extensive configuration and compliance auditing, and broad asset coverage and profiling.
Nessus Perimeter Service
As a PCI Approved Scanning Vendor (PCI ASV), Tenable Network Security® is your one-stop shop for PCI compliance. Tenable's Nessus Perimeter Service is an on-demand, hosted service that finds public-facing network and web vulnerabilities and validates quarterly PCI compliance.
Nessus for Your Environment
In addition to ProfessionalFeed and Perimeter Service subscriptions and evaluations for commercial organizations, Tenable offers charitable / training subscriptions for qualifying non-profit and educational organizations and Nessus HomeFeed® for personal use in a non-commercial, home network.