Tenable Nessus is a world-leader in active vulnerability scanners. It features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery, and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners may be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks. It is free of charge for personal use in a non-enterprise environment.
| Tags | Security |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Proprietary |
| Operating Systems | Linux (32 and 64 bit) FreeBSD Windows (32 and 64bit) MacOS X Solaris (Sparc 64 bit) iPhone (iOS) |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release contains enhancements and minor bugfixes. It also improves stability on all platforms, and solves Windows-specific issues related to installation and packet forgery. From a user perspective, the only change is that it is now possible to specify a separate list of UDP and TCP ports to scan on all targets. This is set in the "Port scanner range" field when you create a new policy or modify an existing one (e.g. if you wanted to scan TCP ports 1-1024 and UDP ports 1-200, the syntax is: "T:1-1024,U:1-200"). A build for FreeBSD version 9 is now available.


Release Notes: This version 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.


Release Notes: This series is a major upgrade with many new features and bugfixes.


No changes have been submitted for this release.


Release Notes: IPv6 is supported. Control of network bandwidth usage during scanning was improved. Granular access control rules were implemented to limit users to specific ports and audits. The Nessus Server capability was extended to query remote Windows systems with WMI.
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