Looking at options for vulnerability scanners — which ones would be a good fit for a midsize software startup?

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Global CIO in Consumer Goods3 years ago

Nessus is good solution for midsize organizations.  Does the job at affordable costs.

Executive Director, Enterprise Infrastructure & Cybersecurity in Finance (non-banking)3 years ago

Qualms, Nessus, Tenable 

Founder and CTO in Software3 years ago

Nessus. Simple, effective and good reporting.

CTO in Transportation3 years ago

Right now we are using Qualys and Wazuh. We are starting to look into Nuclei as well.

Information Security Manager in Software3 years ago

I recommend nessus and openvas 

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