Tenable Unveils Comprehensive Web Application and API Scanning Capabilities for Nessus Expert

Tenable®, the Exposure Management company, today announced web application and API scanning in Tenable Nessus Expert, new features that provide simple and comprehensive vulnerability scanning for modern web applications and APIs. 

Web application and API scanning in Nessus Expert are dynamic application security testing (DAST) features that enable security practitioners to proactively identify and assess web applications and APIs for known vulnerabilities. This includes OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities in custom application code and known vulnerabilities found in third-party components. 

Backed by Tenable Research, Nessus provides broad and accurate vulnerability coverage for web applications and APIs – spanning web application servers, content management systems, web frameworks, programming languages and JavaScript libraries. The result is fewer false positives and negatives, ensuring security practitioners know the true risks in their applications. 

“Web applications are under siege and the security practitioners in charge of protecting them face numerous challenges,” said Glen Pendley, chief technology officer, Tenable. “With Nessus Expert – the gold standard in vulnerability assessment – we’re tackling the crux of these challenges head on by widening visibility into web applications and APIs. Whether the apps are running on-prem or in the public cloud, Nessus Expert assesses their exposures and provides security practitioners, consultants and pentesters with actionable results quickly.”

Nessus Expert is the industry’s first vulnerability assessment solution that spans traditional IT assets and the dynamic modern attack surface, including the external attack surface, cloud infrastructure and now, web applications and APIs. This new feature and functionality enables security practitioners to:

• Set-up new web app and API scans and easily generate comprehensive results 
• Rapidly discover known vulnerabilities and cyber hygiene issues using predefined scan templates for SSL/TLS certificates and HTTP header misconfigurations
• Identify all web applications, APIs and underlying components owned by a given organization 
• Confidently and safely scan environments without disruptions or delays

More information on Nessus Expert is available at: https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus 

關於 Tenable

Tenable® 是一家曝險管理公司。全球大約有 43,000 多家企業仰賴 Tenable 協助瞭解並降低網路風險。身為 Nessus® 的創造者，Tenable 拓展了自己在弱點方面的專業知識，以提供全球第一個可在任何運算平台上查看和維護任何數位資產安全的平台。在 Tenable 的客戶中，包含大約 60% 的財星 500 大企業、大約 40% 的全球 2,000 大企業以及大型政府機構。如需深入瞭解，請前往 tenable.com。