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Nessus Essentials and Essentials Plus (non-commercial)

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Kind
Community license
Term
30 days (Essentials); 1 year (Essentials Plus).
Aliases
Nessus for Education
Definition
Nessus Essentials page: "Nessus Essentials and Nessus Essentials Plus are for personal, educational and non-commercial purposes only." Nessus Essentials is a free 30-day licence for up to 5 IPs; Nessus Essentials Plus is a low-cost annual licence for up to 20 IPs, free for verified students and instructors.
Commercial rules
Commercial deployments and consulting services require a paid Nessus Professional licence. Essentials does not include real-time plugin updates, reporting or data export, and scan data is not retained after expiry.
Applies to
Hobbyists, students, educators, home and lab networks.
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