When Tenable releases new vulnerability checks, they package them into a massive compressed archive. The all-2.0.tar.gz file is the "gold standard" of plugin sets.
Tenable provides several official pathways to obtain this file. Below are the three primary methods, ranked from most convenient to most manual. download nessus-update-plugins all-2.0.tar.gz
sudo /opt/nessus/sbin/nessuscli update nessus-update-plugins\ all-2.0.tar.gz
A Nessus plugin tarball typically contains: When Tenable releases new vulnerability checks, they package