Nessus provides additional functionality beyond testing for known network vulnerabilities.Nessus can also support configuration and compliance audits, SCADA audits, and PCI compliance.Įxamples of vulnerabilities and exposures Nessus can scan for include: There exist many different commercial, free and open source tools for both UNIX and Windows to manage individual or distributed Nessus scanners. On UNIX, scanning can be automated through the use of a command-line client. The results can also b saved in a knowledge base for debugging. The results of the scan can_be reported in various formats, such as plain text, XML, HTML and LaTeX. Nessus gives you malware detection, scanning of embedded devices, configurations auditing, control systems auditing and compliance checks among other features. It scans cover a wide range of technologies including operating systems, network devices, hypervisors, databases, web servers, and critical infrastructure. Nessus is a proprietary vulnerability scanner developed by Tenable, Inc.
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