Question

____________ is the world’s most popular vulnerability scanner used in companies for checking vulnerabilities in the network.

(a) Wireshark

(b) Nessus

(c) Snort

(d) WebInspect

I have been asked this question by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

My question is from Popular Tools used in Security in section Cyber Laws, Security Tools, Bugs and Vulnerabilities of Cyber Security

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) Nessus

To explain: Nessus is a popular and proprietary network vulnerability scanning tool developed by Tenable Network Security. It helps in easily identifying vulnerabilities and fix them, which includes missing patches and software flaws.