Tenable Nessus vs. HostedScan

Both solutions provide vulnerability management for small, medium, and enterprise organizations.

Shared

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

Free to try end-to-end, sign-up today

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.