What are the differences between OpenVAS and Nessus?

What are the differences between OpenVAS and Nessus?

When it comes to the metrics, Nessus covers a wider range of vulnerabilities than OpenVAS with support for over 50,000 CVEs compared to 26,000. Nessus is superior because it can detect more issues than OpenVAS. Nessus also has the advantage of delivering a lower false-positive rate.

What is a Nessus scanner?

Nessus is a remote security scanning tool, which scans a computer and raises an alert if it discovers any vulnerabilities that malicious hackers could use to gain access to any computer you have connected to a network.

What is Nessus appliance?

The Tenable Appliance* is a browser-managed application that hosts various Tenable enterprise applications including Nessus, Tenable.sc, and the Nessus Network Monitor (NNM).

How long does a Nessus scan take?

In summary there are 1700 targets to scan. And the scan should be done in less than 50 hours (weekend). Just for a little pre check i scanned 12 targets and the scan took 4 hours. This is way to long for our szenario.

What can Nessus detect?

Nessus can scan these vulnerabilities and exposures:

• Vulnerabilities that could allow unauthorized control or access to sensitive data on a system.
• Misconfiguration (e.g. open mail relay)
• Denials of service (Dos) vulnerabilities.
• Default passwords, a few common passwords, and blank/absent passwords on some system accounts.

Is Qualys expensive?

Qualys Consultant – Starting at $2,995 per scanner (annually) Qualys Consultant Professional (Pay per Scan) – Starting at $1,995 per package.

What can nexpose scan?

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You can use Nexpose to scan a network for vulnerabilities. Nexpose identifies the active services, open ports, and running applications on each machine, and it attempts to find vulnerabilities that may exist based on the attributes of the known services and applications.

Is nexpose free?

Nexpose is one of the leading vulnerability assessment tools. The Nexpose community edition is a free program and the other editions are paid ones. In this article, we will use the free Nexpose community edition, which has the ability to scan 32 hosts.

What happens when you reset the scanner on Nessus?

In addition, the ‘ fix –reset ‘ command will not affect your scan data, policies, reports, or users. It will clear the activation state and any advanced settings configured in Nessus (i.e. SMTP, Proxy).

Can You Link a Nessus scanner to tenable.io?

You can link a Nessus scanner to a manager such as Nessus Manager or Tenable.io. You cannot link to Tenable.sc from the user interface after initial installation. If your scanner is already linked to Tenable.sc, you can unlink and then link the scanner to Tenable.io or Nessus Manager, but you cannot relink to Tenable.sc from the interface.

Is there a free version of Nessus vulnerability scanner?

Hit the “New Scan” button above, then select the type of scan to perform from the numerous templates available. The templates shown above will be limited within the free version of Nessus. Your license will determine the version of Nessus you use.

What is the user interface of the Nessus scanner?

The Nessus user interface is primarily made up of two main pages: the scans page and the settings page. These pages allow you to manage scan configurations and set up the scanner according to how you would like it to perform within your system.