Nessus Alternatives

Nessus is described as 'Identify system vulnerabilities with automated assessments and prioritize remediation through a scoring system, offering guidance for all experience levels' and is a vulnerability scanner in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Nessus for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, Windows, SaaS and Mac apps. The best Nessus alternative is SiteOne Crawler, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nessus are Metasploit, OpenVAS, PhoneSploit Pro and ScanAnchor.

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  1. Nautillo Pro icon
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    Test your website like a real attacker would. Nautillo Pro finds account takeover risks, API exposure, broken access control, and AI security flaws before users and hackers do.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Unified application security platform — 12 scanners including SAST, DAST, SCA, and pen-testing in one on-premise deployment. Replaces your entire AppSec stack.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. ShipSafe icon
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    ShipSafe is a free online website safety checker that helps users quickly analyze whether a website is safe or potentially risky. By entering a domain or URL, ShipSafe provides a trust score, security insights, and reputation indicators that help users avoid scams, phishing...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. skipfish icon
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    A fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool. Key features: High speed: pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint - easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. OpenSCAP icon
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    SCAP is a line of standards managed by NIST. It was created to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of enterprise systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration settings, and examining systems for...

    18 OpenSCAP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Pabit icon
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    Pabit is a modern project management and task tracking tool designed to help teams organize work without unnecessary complexity. It provides tasks, sprints, project modules, and real-time analytics in a clean and intuitive interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. Acunetix icon
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    Audit your website security and web applications for SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other web vulnerabilities with Acunetix Web Security Scanner. Download Free Edition!

    77 Acunetix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Wordpress
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  8. Whitespots icon
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    📈 Measure and control your application security state; 🔎 Scan your code, containers, web and mobile applications; 🔥 Remove duplicates, validate results, and create Jira tasks in seconds; 🕜 Save your engineers time and automate your processes; ? Self-hosted.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Qualys, Inc., is the most widely-deployed information security and compliance cloud solution in the world with over 7,700 customers including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and a majority of the Fortune 100.

    47 Qualys Cloud Platform alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. Nexpose icon
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    Learn about our vulnerability management software, Nexpose. See how our vulnerability scanner prioritizes vulnerabilities and speeds up remediation.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Take care of your company's reputation and the trust of your customers. Scanning your environment 24 hours a day allows you to stay ahead of cyberattackers and avoid financial losses due to a data breach.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Probely icon
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    Probely is a top-tier cloud-based DAST Scanner designed for DevOps, empowering Security and Development teams to work together to secure their web applications and APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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