We compared Tenable Nessus and Pentera based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Tenable Nessus is praised for its vulnerability scanning capabilities, customer service, reasonable pricing, and value in improving cybersecurity. On the other hand, Pentera stands out for its security testing capabilities, user-friendly interface, efficient vulnerability tracking, and positive return on investment. Areas for improvement include user interface, system stability, performance, and customer support.
Features: Tenable Nessus is valued for its comprehensive vulnerability scanning and prioritization capabilities, while Pentera is praised for its extensive range of security tests and efficient vulnerability tracking and reporting system.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost of Tenable Nessus is praised for being relatively low and the licensing process is straightforward, according to user feedback. On the other hand, the cost, setup, and licensing of Pentera have been discussed by customers, with opinions shared about pricing, initial investment, and license agreement., The Tenable Nessus product has received positive feedback regarding its effectiveness, reliability, and ease of use, providing value in terms of ROI. Users also appreciated its comprehensive reporting features. On the other hand, Pentera users expressed satisfaction and benefit from their experience with the product, indicating a positive ROI.
Room for Improvement: The room for improvement in Tenable Nessus includes user feedback on areas that need to be addressed. On the other hand, Pentera has areas to improve such as enhancing the user interface, improving system stability, increasing platform performance, and enhancing customer support and documentation.
Deployment and customer support: Tenable Nessus and Pentera both have users mentioning spending three months on deployment and an additional week on setup. However, Pentera also has users mentioning a week for deployment and another week for setup, indicating a potentially faster implementation process compared to Tenable Nessus., The customer service for Tenable Nessus is highly regarded, with users praising the effectiveness and responsiveness of the support team. On the other hand, customers of Pentera appreciate the helpful and responsive assistance they have received from the company.
The summary above is based on 41 interviews we conducted recently with Tenable Nessus and Pentera users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Pentera is that you can do continuous vulnerability assessment, which is automated."
"Maybe there are some remediation steps on the website, we can mask sensitive information on the website better."
"What I like the most about Pentera is its solution-oriented approach."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"The vulnerability scanner is the most valuable feature."
"Tenable Nessus streamlines the process of scanning for our organization."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the dashboard. They are convenient to use."
"Scanners and reports using CIS templates ("de-facto" standard, easy to fix and to locate correction tips at documentation), tests against cloud providers, database profiles, several types of telecom devices, and others highly customizable scans."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is vulnerability assessments. There are a lot of threats around the world and this solution is the first to come out with detection rules."
"The product's most valuable features are vulnerability and asset management. It can define the rules and validate the configuration."
"The solution is easy to understand for users because instructions are included on the platform."
"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."
"Pentera's general dashboards could be improved and made more specific in terms of vulnerabilities that I'm discovering."
"There is room for improvement in virtualization compatibility."
"Maybe scalability. I know that the Pentera right now is high level in order to scan big deals over 500 IPs and not less, and not less. That can be more granular. This will be useful."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"The price could be improved."
"Pricing is one of the most important features, and it is something that they can improve on."
"This is still a maturing product. Tenable is only a scanner for one ability, while other solutions like Rapid7 have more tools for verification. We still have to manually verify to see if the vulnerability is a false positive or not."
"The interface is a little bit clunky, and the reporting is not marvelous. There should be better integration of reporting between instances. Currently, the instance stands alone, and it produces a report. Being able to amalgamate those reports with another instance will be useful."
"The reporting feature needs to be improved."
"The solution should be able to support more devices."
"They need more flexible pricing."
"There is room for improvement in finishing the transition to the cloud. We'd like to see them keep on improving the Tenable.io product, so that we can migrate to it entirely, instead of having to keep the Tenable.sc on-prem product."
"The problems I faced with Tenable Nessus were related to its dashboard's customization capabilities and its ability to provide data to third-party sources."
Pentera is ranked 14th in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Pentera is rated 8.2, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Pentera writes "A stable solution that can be used to do continuous and automated vulnerability assessments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Pentera is most compared with Cymulate, Horizon3.ai, Picus Security, Qualys VMDR and XM Cyber, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management. See our Pentera vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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