Question

Information security vulnerability analysis tool

Your browser should return several hits. Choose a topic which can be a tool, framework, practice, a methodology or technology related to vulnerability analysis and summarize it for the class. In your summary explain its purpose and address the following points:

How widely is it used? How reliable is it in practice? What is its commercial availability? Does it scale well? Is it applicable to networked environments? Are there any other relevant aspects which you may have noticed?

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Nessus is a widely used Vulnerability assessment scanner tool by over more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. The tool has a wide range of scanning capabilities.

Nessus was initially a free and open-source tool. Now it is a commercial tool with a 7-day free trial to try and evaluate the product. The scanner tool is cross-platform and can be installed on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, etc.

The tool supports scalability. We can try a single user license and move to other variations of the product to support an increase in need. Tenable.io supports tool capabilities in the cloud.

Nessus Network Monitor tool can be used to monitor networked environments. Some features are continuous monitoring, suspicious traffic detection, asset discovery, immediate vulnerability discovery, etc.

Nessus is a reliable scanner tool. It is constantly updated by the research team. Nessus scanning is accurate and high-speed. The tool covers a broad range of devices and configurations.

Scan options of the tool include local scans, remote scans, cloud scans, etc.

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