Open-source alternative  ·  Security

Replace Tenable Nessus with OpenVAS / Greenbone.

Open source vulnerability scanner. Full CVE database, authenticated scanning, compliance checks.

You'd keep~R36 000 to ~R180 000/year

Current licence  ·  Security

Tenable Nessus

~R36 000 – ~R180 000/yr

10-user estimate

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OpenVAS / Greenbone

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R180 000/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Tenable Nessus's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Nessus Professional

R36 000/yr

R3 000/month

Flat rate

With OpenVAS / Greenbone

Keep R36 000/yr

Tenable.io (100 assets)

R54 000/yr

R4 500/month

Flat rate

With OpenVAS / Greenbone

Keep R54 000/yr

Security Center

R180 000/yr

R15 000/month

Flat rate

With OpenVAS / Greenbone

Keep R180 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Tenable Nessus grows around 10% per year on average. OpenVAS / Greenbone hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR80kR159kR239kR319kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R290kR18k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.28M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Tenable NessusOpenVAS / Greenbone, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Other security migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.