Tenable Nessus vs. HostedScan
Both solutions provide vulnerability management for small, medium, and enterprise organizations.
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Features of both platforms
Vulnerability scanners in the cloud
Import targets from different sources
Custom dashboards and reporting
Run scans on-demand or scheduled
hostedscan benefits
What's different about HostedScan?
Cost effective for large numbers of targets
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API access with Webhooks for programmatic integrations
About Tenable Nessus
Nessus is a vulnerability scanner created by Renaud Deraison in 1998 as a free remote security scanner which is now managed by Tenable, Inc. While the project started out under the GPL license for all to use, Deraison turned against the open source license of Nessus in October of 2005, closing the free version of Nessus during the transition from Nessus 2 to Nessus 3. As a result, the open source community carried on by forking Nessus version 2 to what became the OpenVAS project, managed by the Greenbone.
HostedScan's Network Scanner
HostedScan uses the OpenVAS scanner for network scanning. OpenVAS contains 170,000 Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs) and growing. HostedScan updates the feed daily to use the latest NVTs for scanning. The NVTs for OpenVAS comes from two
OpenVAS Online Scan
Safeguard your business through continous, up to date, vulnerability scanning.
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HostedScan enables companies to meet compliance and security goals.