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Amazon Inspector vs Tenable Cloud Security comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.5
Amazon Inspector offers reliable customer service, with varying response times based on subscription tier, ensuring user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
8.5
Tenable Cloud Security's customer support receives mixed reviews, citing inconsistent responses, slow times, and challenges with global timeliness.
I have not needed to use AWS support for Inspector, which indicates that the service is almost perfect.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.6
Amazon Inspector needs better integration, expanded vulnerability coverage, real-time protection, automation, and improved guidance for comprehensive security.
Sentiment score
8.1
Tenable Cloud Security needs better integration, faster support, improved features, and AI integration for easier multi-cloud implementation.
Automation for scheduling 'turn on' and 'turn off' operations and better integration with CloudWatch for alarms could enhance the service's functionality.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Amazon Inspector offers scalable vulnerability monitoring with ECR integration, popular among security teams but sometimes limited for developers.
Sentiment score
8.5
Tenable Cloud Security excels in multi-cloud scalability but faces challenges with node selection, suiting medium-sized businesses well.
Scalability is not an issue with Amazon Inspector as it is scalable to the maximum, covering any business scale effectively.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Amazon Inspector offers a cost-effective, tiered pricing model with transparent, low-cost scans suitable for diverse organizational needs.
No sentiment score available
Enterprise buyers find Tenable Cloud Security's subscription model competitively priced, rating it eight out of ten for value.
The pricing for Amazon Inspector is very fair, and I would rate it as two out of ten, with ten being the most expensive.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
9.5
Amazon Inspector is highly stable and reliable, receiving excellent user support and impacting business security positively.
No sentiment score available
Amazon Inspector is highly stable, rated ten out of ten, and this stability impacts business security and administration positively.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
Amazon Inspector offers automated vulnerability detection, categorization, and Security Hub integration for enhanced AWS security assessment across resources.
No sentiment score available
The most valuable feature of Amazon Inspector is the categorization of findings, which filters vulnerabilities by instance, container image, container repository, and Lambda function.
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Inspector
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (24th), IT Vendor Risk Management (9th)
Tenable Cloud Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (10th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (15th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (17th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (14th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

Nikhil Sehgal - PeerSpot reviewer
Primarily focuses on security of EC2 instances, provides point-in-time assessments rather than real time protection but provides automated vulnerability detection
It has a limited scope. So, AWS Inspector primarily focuses on the security of the EC2 instance. So, if your architecture includes other AWS services, then you may need to use additional tools for your comprehensive security assessment. So that is one con. Another is, like, we have a dependency on agents. So other is dependency on agents, like, Inspector relies on agents installed on instances for deeper assessment. So managing these agents can be additional overhead. So these kinds of things. It does not even provide real-time protection. So, Inspector provides point-in-time assessment rather than continuous monitoring. So these are all cons. When it comes to false positives, it is there for most security tools as of now. I would not consider false positives a major concern. So, these are the major concerns that I found: dependency on agents, limited scope, and no real-time protection.
SumeshKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution provides a single dashboard to onboard and have visibility into all the cloud infrastructure, but it should offer a complete Cnapp solution
Tenable Cloud Security is used for CSPM. If you have multi-cloud tenancy using AWS and Azure, you can have a single dashboard where you can onboard all the cloud infrastructure and have visibility into it. It has multiple cover steps of compliance. So, if you are obliged by any compliance, you can use that particular compliance.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Inspector?
The integration of Amazon Inspector with other AWS services has enhanced our security. Security Hub is a major asset because it allows us to centralize data from various AWS services. We can integ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Inspector?
The pricing is very transparent and clear, so I don't have any challenges with it. It's good.
What needs improvement with Amazon Inspector?
There is room for improvement in the scanning capabilities. I'd like to see broader coverage in terms of the vulnerabilities detected. Right now, it's not as comprehensive as some of the third-part...
What do you like most about Tenable Cloud Security?
The solution’s vulnerability management feature has helped us identify and mitigate risks well.
What needs improvement with Tenable Cloud Security?
Another team uses the tool. Tenable acquired Ermetic. I think Tenable has features, stays up to date, and upgrades every few months. I am not sure of the tool's use case, as another team uses it. I...
What is your primary use case for Tenable Cloud Security?
Right now, I use Tenable as CNAPP, and it is good for the product as it offers enhanced security to users. We did use the tool on the cloud. I am not sure if some models, like CIEM, are available a...
 

Also Known As

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Ermetic, Ermetic Identity Governance for AWS
 

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