We performed a comparison between Tenable.io Vulnerability Management and Tenable SC based on our users’ reviews in four categories. Our conclusion is presented below.
Comparison Results: Tenable SC comes out ahead when it comes to the user interface and product support. However, it is an on-prem solution only, while Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is available for both cloud or on-prem deployment and is noted as integrating well with third-party solutions.
"Their overall cost of service is pretty good."
"It basically reviews our threat landscape vulnerability."
"The usability is really good. It's very easy to use and a good platform. It is scalable and very stable. The technical support is fine and the setup is super easy."
"What is useful to me is being able to fulfill very customized scanning policies. In the clinical environment, because of vendor control, we can't perform credential-vulnerability scanning. And network scans, which I've done before, can cause a lot of impact. Being able to create very customized policies to be able to routinely scan and audit our clinical networks, while simultaneously not causing impact, is important to us."
"The tool's dashboard and reporting capabilities match our company's needs since we are able to modify the basic view to create a new dashboard, and it works out very well for our needs."
"The most valuable feature of the product is the Assurance Report Card, which gives us an overview of the security poster in just a simple glance."
"This solution has a much lower rate of false positives compared to competing products."
"Tenable is the leading product for vulnerability scanning."
"The solution provides seamlessness, a perfect UI, and identity management for office operations. We are most vulnerable to users. Therefore, it is crucial to implement the right solution to ensure proper user access and resource management."
"Tenable.io, in particular, is quite a powerful product. It looks at your traditional environment, which is pretty much anything that is on-premises, and it also goes a step ahead and covers your modern assets, which is anything that is currently sitting in the cloud. You get complete visibility of your entire environment and tech operation. The ability to give you visibility across the entire tech surface is one of the biggest advantages that Tenable.io has."
"It is a very, very user-friendly tool...The setup is easy"
"Technical support has been good. They respond quite quickly."
"They are on a good trajectory as a company and investing in R&D in the right ways."
"It's a recommended tool for penetration testers because it's effective for that purpose."
"A new user can easily understand the workflow, even if they are creating users for other divisions and the user is a beginner."
"It is easy to manage. Most of the information the tool provided helped to further investigate the vulnerability and its impact."
"The solution should include compliance-based scanning."
"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."
"Tenable's reporting engine needs improvement. It needs to be more efficient and add more features."
"The pricing is reasonable, but this could be brought down more aggressively, such as we see with Rapid7, Tenable SC's main competitor."
"Support could be faster."
"Certain aspects require manual effort, such as exporting and analyzing data for our dashboards. The built-in components of the Tenable solution are somewhat clumsy that require external tools. So, this is an area of improvement."
"The solution needs to improve its support. I would like to see a bird's eye view of my network architecture. I would also like to see the continuous view feature in the tool."
"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."
"They've been able to think about everything in terms of where the world is going and the type of assets that you've got. They've everything sorted out in that aspect, but you have to pay for most of the other components that they've got to give you complete visibility across your tech surface. If it already had those capabilities in-built, without having to add them on to take advantage of them, it would be a very compelling value proposition."
"It would be helpful if Tenable could be more clear with regard to everything the solution can and cannot do with the particular license that you have."
"The pricing of the solution could be more reasonable."
"It's not a user-friendly tool since it has a complicated interface."
"The stability has room for improvement."
"The solution seems to focus too much on enterprises, and they really need a product that works for SMBs."
"We'd like to see a bit more user-friendliness."
"The only drawback of the solution is that it is expensive."
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Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews while Tenable Vulnerability Management is ranked 2nd in Vulnerability Management with 39 reviews. Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2, while Tenable Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Vulnerability Management writes "Discovers vulnerabilities and integrates well with other solutions". Tenable Security Center is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Horizon3.ai and Tanium, whereas Tenable Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Qualys VMDR, Amazon Inspector, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Rapid7 InsightVM. See our Tenable Security Center vs. Tenable Vulnerability Management report.
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