Agent Scanning

Related Reading: Agent Use Cases (High Latency Networks, Mobile/Distributed Workforces, and Hardened Systems) and Large-Scale Deployment Considerations in the Tenable Nessus Agent Deployment and User Guide

Tenable Nessus Agents can increase the flexibility of your Tenable Security Center deployment since agent scanners are not limited by the same network architecture considerations as active scanners. Tenable Nessus Agents are also a good solution for high latency networks, unreachable networks, and hardened systems.

You can deploy Tenable Nessus Agents to communicate through an intermediary manager: Tenable Vulnerability Management (cloud-based) or Tenable Nessus Manager (on-premises). If you deploy large numbers of Tenable Nessus Agents, review the large-scale deployment considerations.