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 

Über Tenable

Tenable® ist das Unternehmen für Exposure Management. Rund 43.000 Unternehmen aus aller Welt verlassen sich auf Tenable, wenn es um die Erkennung und Minimierung von Cyberrisiken geht. Als Erfinder von Nessus® hat Tenable sein Know-how im Bereich des Schwachstellen-Managements erweitert, um die weltweit erste Plattform bereitzustellen, mit der jedes digitale Asset auf jeder beliebigen Computing-Plattform erkannt und abgesichert werden kann. Zu den Kunden von Tenable zählen ca. 60 Prozent der Fortune 500-Unternehmen, ca. 40 Prozent der Global 2000 sowie große Regierungsbehörden. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf tenable.com.