We performed a comparison between AWS Security Hub and Tenable.sc based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Tenable.sc provides precise identification of vulnerabilities, compliance and vulnerability scans, and a risk-oriented methodology. On the other hand, AWS Security Hub receives commendation for its integration capabilities, immediate alerts, and thorough notifications regarding potential compliance concerns. Tenable.sc and AWS Security Hub both have areas where they could improve. Tenable.sc needs to work on their penetration testing, pricing, ticketing, GUI, reporting, vendor training, and accuracy of vulnerability assessments. AWS Security Hub requires more integration options, better UI, multi-cloud compatibility, faster updates, and easier configuration.
Service and Support: Tenable.sc's customer service has received mixed feedback, with varying levels of helpfulness. In comparison, AWS Security Hub's support is praised for being prompt and good.
Ease of Deployment: Tenable.sc's initial setup is praised for being simple and quick, with the cloud version taking only one day and the on-prem version taking two to three weeks. Meanwhile, AWS Security Hub's setup is also considered easy, though it does involve policy configuration and some upkeep.
Pricing: Tenable.sc charges based on the number of IP addresses and has mixed opinions on pricing, while AWS Security Hub has reasonable pricing.
ROI: Tenable.sc is cost-effective and offers a guaranteed ROI with a significant reduction in manpower costs. In contrast, AWS Security Hub does not provide the same level of value, despite offering a positive outcome.
Comparison Results: Tenable.sc is seen as the superior choice when compared to AWS Security Hub by users. This is due to its extensive features, including accurate vulnerability detection, compliance and vulnerability scans, and a risk-based approach. Tenable.sc also provides advanced scanning, asset discovery, and scoring, which are not found in AWS Security Hub. Although AWS Security Hub is praised for its integration capabilities and real-time alerts, Tenable.sc's analysis, prioritization, and usability features make it a more valuable tool for vulnerability analysis and remediation progress tracking.
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Security Hub is the ability to track when monitoring is not enabled on any of my resources."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to manage...It is a scalable solution."
"The platform has valuable features for security."
"Easily integrates with third-party tools"
"AWS Security Hub has very good integration features. It allows for AWS native services integration, and it helps us to integrate some of the services outside of AWS. They have partners, such as Amazon Preferred Network Partners (APN). If you have different security tools around APN, we can integrate those findings with AWS Security Hub reducing the need to refer to different portals or different UIs. You can have AWS Security Hub act as a single common go-to dashboard."
"I really like the seamless integration with the AWS account structure. It can even be made mandatory as part of the landing zone. These are great features. And there's a single pane of glass for the entire account."
"The best feature of AWS Security Hub is that you can get compliance or your cloud's current security posture."
"AWS Security Hub provides comprehensive alerts about potential compliance issues with CIS standards. The integration with third-party tools is another excellent feature. All our workloads are on AWS."
"I think that this is a good solution for evaluating vulnerability in the network."
"This solution has a much lower rate of false positives compared to competing products."
"The most valuable features of Tenable SC are the reports and the dashboards."
"The predictive prioritization features are pretty good. They do a lot of research and we trust the research that they do internally. They have knowledge of what's going on with many companies, where we only get a view into what's going on here. So the ability to get best practices out of them as part of this solution, is valuable to us."
"The product is our second solution, and we are happy that it meets our requirements."
"This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives."
"Support is knowledgeable."
"Compliance and vulnerability scans are most valuable. Compliance scan helps in validating how our teams are complying, and vulnerability scan helps in future-proofing. Its vulnerability detection is accurate."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"One aspect that could be improved in the solution is its adaptability to different markets and geopolitical restrictions. In certain regions like Thailand, specific services from certain countries or providers, such as AWS or Azure, might be limited or blocked. It also needs improvement in would require configuring the solution more adaptable to AWS infrastructure and function."
"Although AWS Security Hub does a periodic scan of your overall infrastructure, it doesn't do it in real time."
"The solution lacks self-sufficiency."
"The user interface, graphs, and dashboards of the solution could improve in the future. They are not very sophisticated and could use an update."
"From an improvement perspective, there is a need to add more compliance since, right now, AWS Security Hub only provides four to five compliances to control the tool."
"AWS Security Hub's configuration and integration are areas where it lacks and needs to improve."
"It is not flexible for multi-cloud environments."
"We need more granular-level customizations to enable or disable the rules in AWS Security Hub."
"Tenable has some problems with agents going offline during scanning and lag between agents and the security center."
"I will say it's a lot slower compared to an MS scan. It takes so much longer, so the performance could definitely be worked on."
"The pricing is reasonable, but this could be brought down more aggressively, such as we see with Rapid7, Tenable SC's main competitor."
"The solution should provide better web application features and support."
"Tenable SC could improve by making the creation of the initial reports easier that correspond to our network."
"In terms of configuration, there is some level of flexibility that we are not able to achieve."
"We are facing some challenges related to our channel."
"We experienced some difficulties with the solution’s support."
AWS Security Hub is ranked 13th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 17 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 10th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 48 reviews. AWS Security Hub is rated 7.6, while Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AWS Security Hub writes "A centralized dashboard that enables efficient monitoring and management of possible security issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". AWS Security Hub is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Google Chronicle Suite and Wazuh, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. See our AWS Security Hub vs. Tenable Security Center report.
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