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# Nessus Reviews

## Reviews Summary

## Overall Rating

4.7

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## Ratings Breakdown

5

(65)

4

(26)

3

(2)

2

(0)

1

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## Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.6

Customer Support

4.3

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.6

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### Pros

"Reporting of results with CVSS scoring are accurate and remediation fixes are provided by this tool itself"

"Great scanning capabilities with form based and token based authentication."

"Deploying it is just a matter of installing it, and putting in the right information in the installation, which can be automated. Once it's installed, it just works."

### Cons

"The only flaw of Nessus is that if you don't purchase the "Tenable Web App Scanning" subscription, doing authenticated scans on web apps (especially if they implement authentication mechanisms such as SSO) presents problems, since even specifying credentials (or cookies)"

"it can happen that Nessus fails to authenticate."

"For a small organization, the cost of the product can be too high to bear."

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