Nessus Professional [Update 10/2025]

Tenable Nessus is a powerful vulnerability scanner that helps you identify and fix security issues in your network, web applications, cloud infrastructure, and more. With Nessus, you can:


Scan your IT assets for thousands of known and emerging vulnerabilities, with low false positives and high accuracy.
Audit your systems for compliance with industry standards and best practices, such as PCI DSS, CIS Benchmarks, NIST, and more.
Discover and assess your internet-exposed attack surface, including web applications, domains, certificates, and cloud assets.
Leverage advanced features such as web application scanning, external attack surface scanning, cloud infrastructure scanning, and custom policies.


To run the software, you need a VMware virtualizer.
Set both network adaptor to NAT
You can change the amount of RAM and CPU of the virtual machine according to the specifications of your system. (optional)
Turn on the virtual machine and wait for it to turn on completely and see the black and white login screen.

Log in to the VM with the root username and hide01.ir password.
To find the internal IP address of the VM, type ifconfig | more
After finding the internal IP address of the VM in your main operating system, open your browser and go to the address IP:8834
Nessus software needs to prepare its plugins and tools, and depending on the speed of your hardware, especially (HDD/SSD), it may take between 20 and 30 minutes.
log in with the Nessus username and hide01.ir password

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