Amazon Inspector vs Tenable Cloud Security comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Inspector
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (23rd), IT Vendor Risk Management (6th)
Tenable Cloud Security
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (17th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (16th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (18th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (15th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

SS
Mar 27, 2024
Presents vulnerabilities across different resources, like containers and servers, in a single consolidated view
We use AWS services for a variety of clients, including banking and healthcare. We leverage GuardDuty for continuous threat detection, Inspector for vulnerability management, and Security Hub for CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management). For compliance, we primarily use Security Hub for our CSPM…
Rob Hussey - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 19, 2023
Helps to react promptly with monitoring and alerting capabilities
We use Ermetic for monitoring and alerting.  The tool alerts us on depreciating performance or deficiencies of our web application. It helps us react on time.  Ermetic needs to improve its security scanning. I would like to see more dynamic graphical forms.  I have been working with the solution…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 integrate third-party tools as well. It is just a single-click option."
"The automated vulnerability detection aspect is most valuable."
"The findings dashboards are neat and easy to understand, offering clear demarcations for different types of findings and detailed insights into specific vulnerabilities and their associated instances. It is not a place where everything is dumped together. It offers an easy-to-understand layout."
"The vulnerability discovery is valuable, and they also rank those vulnerabilities for you. So, you could rapidly attack some of the higher, severe vulnerabilities as they pop up, if they do pop up."
"The key benefit lies in having the largest and most up-to-date database. When it comes to using any Tenable product, it excels in finding vulnerabilities and providing analytics."
"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."
"The tool alerts us on depreciating performance or deficiencies of our web application. It helps us react on time."
"Ermetic can provide super visibility for our cloud environment (we are using AWS)."
"The product's visibility and remediation work fine for me."
"The solution’s vulnerability management feature has helped us identify and mitigate risks well."
 

Cons

"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."
"One major area for improvement is remediation. My team works on remediating findings over time, likely using available patches. However, easier integration with Amazon's patching services would be very helpful."
"There is room for improvement in the scanning capabilities. I'd like to see broader coverage in terms of the vulnerabilities detected."
"There isn't too much to improve right now. Scanning on demand or as a part of the pipeline versus a post pipeline solution would be good, but it is not a deal breaker by any means."
"The product must provide more features."
"Ermetic needs to improve its security scanning. I would like to see more dynamic graphical forms."
"If Tenable Cloud Security offers a complete Cnapp solution with CWP, CIEM, and Waap security, it will be able to compete with other competitors."
"I didn't find anything that wasn't useful or needed to be added."
"I do think there might be room for more integrations. This could allow for further customization and flexibility, essentially offering different functionality options to accommodate various budgets."
"There is a need for the support team to improve their response time since it is one of the areas where the product's technical team has certain shortcomings."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is very transparent and clear."
"It's priced according to market standards for its services."
"It is scaled as you go. There are probably a certain number of scans per month, and there are tiers. If you're under a certain tier, it is free. The second level is pennies, and then all the way up to like a million. So, it has a tiered pricing program. They're pretty good with your initial scanning, and there is room to scale based on being affordable, but it is fairly cheap. There are no additional costs. They pretty much think about it as a pay-per-scan type model."
"The tool's pricing is fair."
"There is a need to opt for a subscription-based pricing model to use Tenable Cloud Security. I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Insurance Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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?
The product must provide more features. It must integrate with AI. The reporting features are bad. The reports do not have detailed information. We cannot do CI/CD with the tool.
What is your primary use case for Tenable Cloud Security?
The use cases attached to Tenable Cloud Security include compliance verifications for the cloud environment.
 

Also Known As

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Ermetic, Ermetic Identity Governance for AWS
 

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