We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"Tenable Nessus is cheap and flexible."
"The most valuable feature is how it scanned and detected through its database to let us know exactly what fixes we needed to put in place for the vulnerabilities. It detects and it also gives you the way to fix it."
"The reports are pretty nice and easy to understand."
"Quick assessments, compliance scores, and results are provided without having to do agents."
"Tenable Nessus is one of the best vulnerability assessment tools, that I know."
"My favorite part about Nessus is that you can customize the tool to scan exactly what you want. Microsoft releases new patches monthly on Patch Tuesday, and a lot of companies track that date. I set up Nessus for the day after Patch Tuesday to see which devices have already pushed those updates from Microsoft, so we can stay updated."
"Tenable Nessus has a good performance, is very user-friendly, and is easy to use."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to understand."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"Integration can be improved."
"The general support could be improved."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The tool needs to upgrade asset tracking."
"The reporting could be improved. The reporting in Rapid7 is much better."
"The scalability of Tenable Nessus is good. However, it could be more flexible."
"I would like to have a management option after the network scanning."
"Some things in the user interface could be better. The user interface could allow more adjustments to plugins. The price could also be better."
"The professional version is not very scalable."
"The features are limited when it comes to scanning network devices for vulnerabilities."
"Pricing is one of the most important features, and it is something that they can improve on."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 23rd in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management writes "The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Rapid7 Metasploit. See our Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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