We performed a comparison between Pentera and Tenable Security Center 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 most valuable feature of Pentera is that you can do continuous vulnerability assessment, which is automated."
"What I like the most about Pentera is its solution-oriented approach."
"The product is easy to use."
"Maybe there are some remediation steps on the website, we can mask sensitive information on the website better."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"One of the most valuable features is their distributed scan model for allotting engines to work together as a pool and handle multiple scans at once, across multiple environments. Automatic scanning distribution is a distinguishing feature of their toolset."
"Initial setup was pretty straightforward."
"The tool provides us insight into the happens of the network and its hosts. It provides me with a list of hosts."
"Very customizable with a lot of templates."
"It is a very good and user-friendly product."
"Support is knowledgeable."
"Tenable Security Center scans networks and gives reports."
"It basically reviews our threat landscape vulnerability."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"There is room for improvement in virtualization compatibility."
"The price could be improved."
"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."
"Pentera's general dashboards could be improved and made more specific in terms of vulnerabilities that I'm discovering."
"At times we have had the typical bugs."
"A good plugin editor would be a good additional option for the Security Center."
"For downloading reports, we have to go to the scan and then we have to go to the reports and download the Excel or CSV or PDF. I think these menus and clicks can be minimized."
"The solution should provide better web application features and support."
"Tenable SC can improve by adding more integrations with HCI-type tools and more accurate vulnerability detection."
"Tenable SC could be improved with additional connectivity to external company postures and the capability of managing and sustaining agents in the systems directly without additional platforms in the middle."
"If I want to have a very low-managed scan policy, it's a lot of work to create something which is very basic. If I use a tool like Nmap, all I have to do is download it, install it, type in the command, and it's good to go. In Security Center, I have to go through a lot of work to create a policy that's very basic."
"Security can always be improved."
Pentera is ranked 12th in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews. Pentera is rated 8.2, while Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2. 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 Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". Pentera is most compared with Cymulate, Tenable Nessus, Picus Security, Horizon3.ai and Qualys VMDR, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Nessus and Horizon3.ai. See our Pentera vs. Tenable Security Center report.
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