Tenable Nessus vs. Tenable Security Center

Built for security practitioners, by security professionals, Nessus products by Tenable are the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Nessus performs point-in-time assessments to help security professionals quickly and easily identify and fix vulnerabilities, including software flaws, missing patches, malware, and misconfigurations - across a variety of operating systems, devices, and applications.

Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc) is the industry's most comprehensive risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) solution, enabling you to: • See all your vulnerabilities and continuously assess all assets the moment they join the network -- including transient devices that aren’t regularly connected • Predict what matters by understanding vulnerabilities in the context of business risk, as well as the criticality of affected assets • Act on each high priority vulnerability to effectively manage risk, and measure KPIs to effectively communicate