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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Nessus

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

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Nessus are Rapid7, SonarQube, and Zabbix. 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. 1
    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 #Security & Privacy #Web Application Security 1 social mentions

  2. 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

  3. 3
    Track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

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

  4. 4
    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 85 social mentions

  5. 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

  6. 6
    Open Source Host and Endpoint Security
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

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

  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. 8
    w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

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

  9. 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

  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. Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 11 social mentions

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    OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Cyber Security #Monitoring Tools 1 social mentions

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