Nessus Appliance

(Available only with a Nessus ProfessionalFeed subscription)

A Nessus ProfessionalFeed subscription gives access to the Tenable Support Portal that contains downloads of a Nessus VMware Virtual Appliance. The appliance works with VMware ESX, Server, Workstation and Fusion. The appliance image allows for rapid deployments and effortless management of Nessus scanners in virtual environments. Users do not need to concern themselves with managing an operating system and can focus on managing their scanner configurations, operation and performance.

Tenable also offers Nessus on a a variety of dedicated hardware appliances with the same web-based management interface from the virtual appliance. The hardware appliance allows for rapid provisioning of multiple Nessus scanners and high performance scanning.

Virtual and hardware appliances of the Tenable SecurityCenter and Passive Vulnerability Scanner are also available. Tenable SecurityCenter can make management and deployment of multiple Nessus scanners very easy. The Passive Vulnerability Scanner provides real-time security monitoring and client-side vulnerability data.

For more information on pricing, please contact us. For technical information, the Nessus appliance manual is also available online.