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. 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.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. TEQNIX.io icon
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    TEQNIX is a platform with a number of tools and strategies for penetration testers, red teamers and secops. It promotes automation with scanners and utilities and also assist in a real-time attack situation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. PatrolServer icon
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    Check realtime and continuously for outdated web software on your server. Delivered by mail and an easy to use dashboard and get notified if PHP, Apache, cPanel, Wordpress, Drupal and many more become outdated.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. BabySploit icon
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    BabySploit is a penetration testing toolkit aimed at making it easy to learn how to use bigger, more complicated frameworks like Metasploit. With a very easy to use UI and toolkit, anybody from any experience level will find...

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  5. Strobes icon
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    Strobes is an integrated cybersecurity platform that combines Attack Surface Management, Penetration Testing-as-a-service, and Risk-Based Vulnerability Management to continuously manage your threat exposure.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Astra’s Pentest is a comprehensive penetration testing solution with an intelligent automated vulnerability scanner coupled with in-depth manual pentesting.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Tsunami icon
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    A general purpose network security scanner with an extensible plugin system for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. HostedScan provides 24x7 alerts and detection for security vulnerabilities. Industry-standard, open-source, vulnerability scans. Automated alerts when something changes. Manage target list manually or import automatically from providers, such as AWS, DigitalOcean, and Linode...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. 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
     
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