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About Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment. From the beginning, we've worked hand-in-hand with the security community. We continuously optimize Nessus based on community feedback to make it the most accurate and comprehensive vulnerability assessment solution in the market. 20 years later and we're still laser focused on community collaboration and product innovation to provide the most accurate and complete vulnerability data - so you don't miss critical issues which could put your organization at risk. Today, Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment.	About Robust cloud solution for continuous web app discovery and detection of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Fully cloud-based, it’s easy to deploy and manage, and scales to millions of assets. WAS finds and catalogs all web apps in your network, including new and unknown ones, and scales from a handful of apps to thousands. With Qualys WAS, you can tag your applications with your own labels and then use those labels to control reporting and limit access to scan data. WAS’ dynamic deep scanning covers all apps on your perimeter, in your internal environment and under active development, and even APIs that support your mobile devices. It also covers public cloud instances, and gives you instant visibility of vulnerabilities like SQLi and XSS. Authenticated, complex and progressive scans are supported. With programmatic scanning of SOAP and REST API services, WAS tests IoT services and APIs used by mobile apps and modern mobile architectures.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience IT professionals searching for a Vulnerability Assessment solution	Audience IT security teams in search of a web application scanning solution to find, fix, and prevent security holes in web apps
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Company Information Tenable Founded: 2002 United States www.tenable.com/products/nessus	Company Information Qualys Founded: 1999 United States www.qualys.com/apps/web-app-scanning/
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Categories AI Pentesting Attack Surface Management Cyber Risk Management IT Security Network Monitoring Network Security Penetration Testing Security Risk Assessment Vulnerability Management Vulnerability Scanners	Categories Vulnerability Scanners
Show More Features Vulnerability Management Features Asset Discovery Asset Tagging Network Scanning Patch Management Policy Management Prioritization Risk Management Vulnerability Assessment Web Scanning
Integrations Azure Marketplace Hexway Pentest Suite NorthStar Navigator Phoenix Security runZero Bizzy Centraleyezer Cisco Vulnerability Management Clockspring D3 Smart SOAR Forescout HivePro Uni5 Monad NAVEX IRM PlexTrac RedSeal SecureTrack+ Tenable One Verisign Show More Integrations View All 55 Integrations	Integrations Azure Marketplace Hexway Pentest Suite NorthStar Navigator Phoenix Security runZero Bizzy Centraleyezer Cisco Vulnerability Management Clockspring D3 Smart SOAR Forescout HivePro Uni5 Monad NAVEX IRM PlexTrac RedSeal SecureTrack+ Tenable One Verisign Show More Integrations View All 66 Integrations
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