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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs Tenable Security Center comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 29, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP provides ROI through enhanced security, reduced vulnerabilities, and efficiency gains in cloud management and compliance.
Sentiment score
7.5
Tenable Security Center boosts ROI by reducing costs, enhancing security, ensuring compliance, and preventing breaches with comprehensive asset visibility.
Monitoring cloud security automatically ensures a return on investment.
Through the use of Tenable Security Center, my clients achieve more efficient patching and gain visibility and understanding of security operations, leading to improved resilience and infrastructure insight.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP's customer service is generally praised but has occasional issues with responsiveness and initial problem resolution.
Sentiment score
7.3
Tenable Security Center's support is responsive and efficient, with room for improvement, particularly in international and standard support.
When I need help or have open questions, or if I require the capability to deploy a quick test environment, there are always people I can contact at Check Point to get my information or the environment as fast as I need it.
I have a dedicated support engineer and a presales engineer dedicated to me.
Longer response times and less thorough assistance.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP offers strong scalability and reliable performance, though licenses and costs may pose challenges for expansion.
Sentiment score
8.2
Tenable Security Center is highly scalable, easily supporting large environments with proper setup, despite initial network adjustments.
I never had any performance-related issues.
I can scale it extensively with the use of agents, allowing scanning in restrictive environments and loosely connected devices.
Scalability is a bit limited with Tenable Security Center.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is highly stable, reliable under heavy loads, and receives strong user satisfaction ratings for dependability.
Sentiment score
8.0
Tenable Security Center is stable, with minor bugs and performance issues; user ratings range from eight to ten.
If there are errors, it is sometimes challenging to elaborate or troubleshoot since it is not transparent enough to understand what to search for.
It is rapidly evolving, and sometimes mistakes occur, necessitating testing.
The stability of the solution is outstanding.
 

Room For Improvement

Users want better third-party integration, automation, intuitive reporting, cost-efficiency, platform support, and refined security in Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP.
Users seek easier integration, improved UI, better support, flexible reporting, and enhanced features for Tenable Security Center.
I need more integration from the code-to-cloud principle.
I require consistency in the user interface to ensure everything is streamlined into the same look and feel.
It's important for Tenable to catch up on testing capabilities that are present in solutions like Qualys.
The reports and plugins for reports and scans could benefit from enhancements.
Translating reports into European languages is especially relevant in Central Eastern Europe, where clients often require reports in local languages.
 

Setup Cost

Check Point's CNAPP offers flexible, transparent pricing with annual or hourly licenses, though costs may rise with cloud infrastructure growth.
Tenable Security Center is expensive, with costs from $13,000 to over $100,000, depending on asset count and license type.
From a licensing and cost perspective, it is really competitive.
It is not cheap, of course, yet it is a necessity.
Tenable Security Center is quite expensive, particularly for the CEE region, causing us to lose cases due to its pricing.
The product is somewhat pricey, reflecting its valuable features and status as a high-quality solution in the vulnerability management market.
The cost of Tenable Security Center is reasonable for our company.
 

Valuable Features

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP excels with dynamic controls, compliance tools, threat detection, and asset management for enhanced cloud security.
Tenable Security Center offers robust vulnerability scanning, user-friendly dashboards, and seamless third-party integration with low false positives.
The CDR helps detect anomalous behavior and respond to threats before they become an issue.
It helps our company identify risks that are most critical to our business.
Detecting misconfigurations in the cloud is what the CSPM delivers.
The most valuable features of Tenable Security Center for my clients are Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) and Asset Criticality Scoring.
The most effective feature of Tenable Security Center for detecting vulnerabilities is its capability for critical mapping.
Tenable Security Center provides an overall score of vulnerabilities, comparing an organization with others in the same industry.
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
9th
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
Cloud and Data Center Security (9th), Container Security (7th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (6th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (5th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (4th), Compliance Management (6th)
Tenable Security Center
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
5th
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
13th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is 1.9%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Security Center is 5.4%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

Bart Coddens - PeerSpot reviewer
Evolved cloud security with active monitoring but needs interface consistency
The user interface needs work. Sometimes, it is a transition from the old tool to the new CNAPP Two that I currently have, and remnants of the old environment can still be detected. I require consistency in the user interface to ensure everything is streamlined into the same look and feel. More work is needed in fine-tuning the threat data towards your CSPM and activity logs, aligning them with business intelligence, which requires a cohesive console interface. My assessment of CloudGuard CDRs in intrusion detection and threat hunting capabilities is that it still needs some work. All the threat data that comes in, you need to fine tune it a bit.
JoaoManso - PeerSpot reviewer
Good dashboards, reporting, and technical support, with a low rate of errors
Parallel scanning would be a nice improvement because it would speed up the detection process. It is not possible to search for vulnerabilities and do compliance checking at the same time. Rather, they are done one after the other. The integration is very good, although it still needs to improve. For example, it would be useful to have better integration with other tools in the space of identity management (IAM). As it is now, integration with new tools has to be developed specifically, so it's not easy. We would like to see better collection capability for external data that will help to improve detection and discovery.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
5%
Educational Organization
23%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Tenable SC?
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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tenable SC?
The product is somewhat pricey, reflecting its valuable features and status as a high-quality solution in the vulnerability management market.
What needs improvement with Tenable SC?
While Tenable Security Center is highly effective, there is always room for continuous improvements. The reports and plugins for reports and scans could benefit from enhancements. Overall, it is a ...
 

Also Known As

Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management, Dome9, Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection, Check Point CloudGuard Intelligence
Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Symantec, Citrix, Car and Driver, Virgin, Cloud Technology Partners
IBM, Sempra Energy, Microsoft, Apple, Adidas, Union Pacific
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