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. Cobalt Strike icon
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    Cobalt Strike is threat emulation software. Red teams and penetration testers use Cobalt Strike to demonstrate the risk of a breach and evaluate mature security programs. Cobalt Strike exploits network vulnerabilities, launches spear phishing campaigns, hosts web drive-by...

    17 Cobalt Strike alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Cloud-native patch management for Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints with vulnerability scanning, staged deployment rings, and compliance reporting.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. Yang icon
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    Yang is yet another Nikto GUI; Software for analyzing and securing your servers. Yang establish diagnostics on :

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. This vulnerability scanner for the Windows WorkStations et Servers gives you all the actions to enforce security of your Windows operating Systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Cyberwatch icon
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    Protect your servers from IT vulnerabilities. Cyberwatch detects your vulnerabilities and deploys automatically the appropriate security fixes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
     
  6. Vulners API icon
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    Vulners is a high-quality correlated database of software vulnerabilities. Users can create a custom VM solution using our consolidated database through API, multiple vulnerability scanners, plugins, and many other security tools and integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. WPSec.com icon
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    For all the scans WPSec.com perform they use the latest technology in vulnerability scanners. Their custom scanning technology includes the use of WPScan, the most reliable and up-to-date WordPress scanning software.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Wordpress
     
  8. Hackerize icon
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    Hackerize is an essential security monitoring tool for websites, constantly protecting businesses from ever-evolving cyber threats.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Rapid7 icon
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    Rapid7 is engineering better security to help companies reduce risk of breach, detect and respond to attacks, and build effective cybersecurity programs.

    26 Rapid7 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. The goal of cvechecker is to report about possible vulnerabilities on your system, by scanning the installed software and matching the results with the CVE database. Indeed, this is not a bullet-proof method and you will most likely have many false positives (vulnerability is...

    17 cvechecker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Network Hotfix Scanner is a free advanced hotfix check utility that scans network computers for missing hotfixes and patches, and helps you download and install them. NetHotfixScanner gives you a quick look at the hotfixes and patches installed or missed on any remote computer...

    16 Network Hotfix Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Runecast  icon
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    Runecast is an AI-powered, agentless scanning solution that allows organizations to keep their workloads secure and compliant anywhere. It automates vulnerability assessment, configuration drift management, and continuous compliance – for VMware, Cloud and Containers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Kubernetes
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Microsoft Azure
    • VMware vSphere
     
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