Nessus® is the world™s most widely-deployed vulnerability and configuration assessment product with more than five million downloads to date. Nessus 5.0 features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery, patch management integration, and vulnerability analysis of your security posture with features that enhance usability, effectiveness, efficiency, and communication with all parts of your organization.

Commercial organizations that use the Nessus vulnerability scanner must purchase a Nessus ProfessionalFeed subscription to scan their network (unlimited IP addresses allowed), obtain support, receive updates to their database of vulnerability checks, and perform compliance auditing. Each ProfessionalFeed subscription costs $1,200 per year, per Nessus scanner and may be purchased from Tenable's ProfessionalFeed Partners or directly from Tenable's online store.
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 Perimeter Service

The Tenable Nessus Perimeter Service is an enterprise-class remote vulnerability scanning service that may be used to audit Internet-facing IP addresses for both network and web application vulnerabilities "from the cloud." Subscribers log into Nessus scanners hosted in Tenable's secure datacenter and have the ability to scan a wide variety of devices. The Nessus Perimeter Service costs $3,600 per year, per scanner and may be purchased directly from Tenable's online store.
Enterprise Management

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


Features:
Agentless auditing
Compliance checks
Content audits
Customized reporting
High-speed vulnerability discovery
In-depth assessments
Patch management integration
Scan policy design & execution