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Nessus Professional is a security platform designed for businesses who want to protect the security of themselves, their clients, and their customers.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Nessus

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SonarQube Rapid7 Snyk Zabbix Wazuh Zed Attack Proxy Angry IP Scanner Metasploit w3af Datadog

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Nessus are SonarQube, Rapid7, and Snyk. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. SonarQube, a core component of the Sonar solution, is an open source, self-managed tool that systematically helps developers and organizations deliver Clean Code.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $150.0 / Annually

    #Code Analysis #Code Review #Code Coverage 1 social mentions

  2. 2
    Find security issues, verify vulnerability mitigations & manage security assessments with Metasploit. Get the world's best penetration testing software now. DownloadPen testing software to act like an attacker.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security #Web Application Security #Security & Privacy 1 social mentions

  3. 3
    Snyk helps you use open source and stay secure. Continuously find and fix vulnerabilities for npm, Maven, NuGet, RubyGems, PyPI and much more.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security #Security Monitoring #Security CI 87 social mentions

  4. 4
    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions

  5. 5
    Open Source Host and Endpoint Security
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Security Information And Event Management (SIEM) #Cyber Security 49 social mentions

  6. The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Application Security #Security #Security & Privacy

  7. Open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Network Scanning #Network Security 32 social mentions

  8. Find security issues, verify vulnerability mitigations & manage security assessments with Metasploit. Get the world's best penetration testing software now.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security #Security Monitoring #Web Application Security

  9. 9
    w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security #Web Application Security #Monitoring Tools 1 social mentions

  10. 10
    See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog's cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $15.0 / Monthly (per host)

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Error Tracking 5 social mentions

  11. 11
    Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management

  12. 12
    Network recon framework, including a web interface to browse Nmap scan results.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Application Security #Attack Surface Management #Security 1 social mentions

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