Nessus vs. Nexpose
Nessus is a widely used, powerful vulnerability scanning engine. Nexpose is the vulnerability scanner presented by Rapid7. Both have a strong footing in the security testing market and come with some great features. Here's a detailed comparison between the two.
Nessus aims to simplify vulnerability assessments and make remediation more efficient. Tenable Nessus helps you extend your security assessment from traditional IT assets to cloud infrastructures.
Nexpose by Rapid7 is an on-premises vulnerability assessment and scanner tool. Nexpose scores vulnerabilities on a scale of 1-1000 instead of 1-10. It gives the users a more insightful take on the age and exploitability of a vulnerability.
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Nexpose
Volume-based pricing
Based on the number of total assets, the pricing for each asset varies. For example, for a total of 500 assets, it costs $1.93 per month for each asset.
It provides on-premise, cloud, and virtual infrastructure assessment.
Nessus
Pricing on the higher side
Nessus provides its top package at $5,888.20 per year. It is built to scan modern attack surfaces to find any vulnerabilities and protect the assets from the same.
Easy to deploy
Nexpose provides unlimited scanning with proficient scan engines.
They are easy to deploy and manageable, however, devices scanned must be removed manually.
Easy to navigate
Nessus provides a point-in-time vulnerability assessment solution that can easily identify vulnerabilities like missing patches, malware, and misconfigurations.
It offers a limited number of scans but ensures zero false positives with its scanning.
No Pentest
Nexpose is a dedicated vulnerability scanner. It doesn't come with a pentest element.
No Pentest
Nessus mainly opts for thorough vulnerability assessments and as such does not provide manual expert pentesting or a pentest certificate.
Automated remediation assistance
Nexpose is a vulnerability scanning engine by Rapid7. You have the option to utilize the automated remediation assistance offered by Rapid7.
Remediation support
The advanced remediation support is only available for an additional $472.
This comes with 24*365 access to phone, emails, and chat support. It is a hefty price to pay on top of the price of the package.
Integration
Nexpose provides CI/CD integration capacities with Jenkins, IBM, Splunk and more.
Could have better integrations to help clients assess their projects in CI/CD pipeline.
Integration
CI/CD integration is possible with Nessus and it partners with IBM Security, Splunk, GitHub, and GitLab.
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