Tenable Nessus
How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Tenable Nessus's? The following
comparison table enables you to discern the performance of both providers across
various attributes essential for meeting your company’s cybersecurity needs. To better understand each
attribute, read their
descriptions in the
dedicated page.
Organization
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Attribute
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Essential
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Advanced
|
Tenable
Nessus
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Focus
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Extras
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None
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None
|
|
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Headcount
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
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Headcount distribution
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | ||
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Headcount growth
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | ||
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Headquarters
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | ||
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Countries
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | ||
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Reputation
|
Same
|
9.01 from 1116 reviews
over 10 years
on G2, Gartner, PeerSpot, Software
Advice and
TrustRadius
|
|
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Followers
|
Same
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
|
|
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Research Firms
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None
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None
|
|
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Founded
|
2001 | ||
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Funding
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Bootstrapped
|
Same
|
No information available
|
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Acquisitions
|
None
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None
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
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Revenue
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | ||
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CVE
|
0 CVEs reported to MITRE
|
||
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Compliance
|
SOC 2 Type
II and SOC
3
|
||
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Bug bounty
|
No
|
||
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Visits
|
Indeterminable (no
information for this
product alone)
|
||
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Authority
|
Indeterminable (no
information for this
product alone)
|
||
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Vulnerability database
|
Tenable - Third-party
|
||
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Content
|
|||
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Knowledge base
|
13 KB sections, 7
in common and 6 additional
|
7 KB sections, all in
common
|
|
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Community
|
|||
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Sync training
|
1 workshop
|
No
|
|
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Async training
|
3 product use courses, all
free
|
5 product use
courses by Tenable (all with paid with certification)
|
|
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Distribution
|
Same
|
||
| Marketplaces | AWS and Azure | ||
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Freemium
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Free trial
|
|||
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Demo
|
|||
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Open Demo
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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Pricing
|
|||
|
Pricing tiers
|
1 plan
|
1 plan
|
2 plans
(professional, expert). All transparent
|
|
Minimum term
|
Monthly | ||
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Minimum payment period
|
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Minimum capabilities
|
|||
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Minimum scope
|
1 group
|
1 author
|
No information available
|
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Pricing drivers
|
|||
|
Minimum monthly payment
|
Service
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
Tenable Nessus
|
|
PTaaS
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Reverse engineering
|
No
|
No | |
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Secure code review
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Pivoting
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Exploitation
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Manual reattacks
|
Not applicable
|
Not applicable
|
|
|
Zero-day
vulnerabilities
|
None
|
Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
|
Continuous
zero-day vulnerability
research
|
|
SLA
|
Availability | ||
|
Min availability
|
>=99.95%
per minute LTM
|
>=
99.95% per month
|
|
|
After-sale guarantees
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
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Accreditations
|
Amazon Linux Ready Product, AWS Graviton Ready Product, DevOps ISV Competency and Security ISV Competency | ||
|
Hacker certifications
|
Not
applicable
|
Not applicable
|
|
|
Type of contract
|
Employee
|
Same
|
|
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Endpoint control
|
Not applicable
|
Total
|
Not applicable
|
|
Channel control
|
Not applicable
|
Total
|
Not applicable
|
|
Standards
|
Some
requirements
from 67
standards, 10 common and
57 additional
|
All requirements from
the same
standards
|
|
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Detection method
|
|||
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Remediation
|
5,
1 in common and 4 additional
|
Same, plus 1
|
|
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Outputs
|
5,
3 in common and 2 additional
|
Same, plus 2
|
5, 3 in
common and 2 additional
|
Product
|
Attribute
|
Essential |
Advanced
|
Tenable Nessus
|
|
ASPM
|
No
|
||
|
API
|
GraphQL with JSON | ||
|
IDE
|
Same, plus 1
functionality
|
No
|
|
|
CLI
|
|||
|
CI/CD
|
|||
|
Vulnerability sources
|
4 sources,
1 in common and 3 additional
|
2 sources,
1 in common and 1 additional
|
|
|
Threat model alignment
|
Yes |
No
|
|
| Priority criteria |
Same
|
||
|
Custom prioritization
|
|||
|
Scanner origin
|
|||
|
SCA
|
No
|
||
|
AI security
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Reachability
|
12 languages
|
No
|
|
|
Reachability type
|
Not applicable
|
||
|
SBOM
|
Yes.
No information available
|
||
|
Malware detection
|
Yes
|
Yes |
Yes.
Only for OSs
|
|
Autofix on components
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Containers
|
No
|
||
|
Source SAST
(languages)
|
No
|
||
|
Source SAST
(frameworks)
|
No |
||
|
Custom rules
|
No
|
No
|
|
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IaC
|
6, 3 in
common and 3 additional
|
4,
1 in common and 3 additional
|
4,
all in common
|
|
Binary SAST
|
1 type of
binary
|
Same, plus 2 types of
binaries
|
No
|
|
DAST
|
|||
|
API security Testing
|
No
|
||
|
IAST
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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CSPM
|
Yes |
No
|
|
|
ASM
|
No | No |
No
|
|
Secrets
|
Same, plus verify other attack
vectors and secrets exploitability
|
No
|
|
|
AI
|
No
|
||
|
MCP
|
No
|
||
|
Open-source
|
MPL-2.0 license, totally equivalent to the paid version |
Not applicable
|
No
|
|
Provisioning as Code
|
No
|
||
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Deployment
|
SaaS and on-premises
|
||
| Regions | |||
|
Status
|
|||
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Incidents
|
Integrations
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
Tenable Nessus
|
|
SCM
|
6, 2 in common and 4
additional
|
2, all in common
|
|
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Binary repositories
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
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Ticketing
|
None |
||
|
ChatOps
|
None |
None
|
None |
|
IDE
|
None |
||
|
CI/CD
|
21, 2 in common and 19 additional
|
4, 2 in common and 2
additional
|
|
|
SCA
|
None |
||
|
Container
|
None |
||
|
SAST
|
None |
||
|
DAST
|
|||
|
IAST
|
None |
None
|
None
|
|
Cloud
|
3, 2 in common and 1 additional
|
2, all in common
|
|
|
CSPM
|
None | ||
|
Secrets
|
None |
||
|
Remediation
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Bug bounty
|
None
|
None
|
1 |
|
Vulnerability management
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Compliance
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
References were last checked on Oct 30, 2025.
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