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Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) vs Rapid7 InsightVM comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Vulnerability Managem...
Ranking in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
22nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Cisco Security Portfolio (11th)
Rapid7 InsightVM
Ranking in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Risk-Based Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) is 2.5%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 InsightVM is 9.4%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Rapid7 InsightVM9.4%
Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM)2.5%
Other88.1%
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

AshishPaliwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Self-employed at Self-employed
Offers contextual prioritization and risk-based remediation of vulnerability
An improvement would be some sort of an integration with any GRC suite. There are a lot of GRC suites available, like Archer, MetricStream, Rsam, Protiviti, for example. So how would a solution like this work if my company has already invested thousands or maybe millions in a GRC solution? Do I still need it and how does it fit into an existing SAP environment? There could be interoperability, having more data sources, integrating Splunk, Qualys, FireEye, Rapid7, Carbon Black. I'm sure all that can be done to an extent, with a little more insight and a little more accuracy on the industry numbers and trends. I'd like the solution to offer any sort of assistance in any way with the remediation part, not just identification of vulnerability risk, and that is second.
FL
Senior Manager - Pre-Sales at Trillium Information Security Systems
Offers robust compliance features but needs improved automation in remediation
The automation capability remediation needs improvement. The current process requires manually telling IT teams to remediate vulnerabilities, and then they update the status of these vulnerabilities in the platform. This basic feature that Rapid7 calls an automated remediation process is actually manual. We can update the status of vulnerabilities in the Rapid7 InsightVM platform and collectively see how many vulnerabilities we have identified and how many are remediated by our IT team. More automation in the remediation feature is a basic demand from many customers. The remediation part and vulnerability identification of network devices or rigid devices are not currently supported by Rapid7 InsightVM. More integration and automation are the two areas Rapid7 needs to improve in their product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The risk context of any vulnerability is a valuable feature."
"The risk context of any vulnerability is a valuable feature; that is what it is used for and then data from different sources can be fed into it, and they have good dashboards, risk meters, and virtualization."
"The stability of Rapid7 InsightVM is excellent."
"I have been in contact with technical support and they are not bad."
"most valuable features of Rapid7 InsightVM for me are creating dynamic asset tags, generating reports, and deploying the agent. The agent scans assets every four hours, providing real-time data on any devices. Although there weren't any significant new features compared to our previous tool, having both SIEM and vulnerability management handled by one tool made things easier. We could gather logs from different devices and cloud sources, and perform detailed investigations without switching tools. I haven't worked with the automation capabilities of InsightVM. For remediation prioritization, we check the vulnerability, search for solutions on open platforms, and work with different teams to apply patches after proper testing. Currently, we don’t have any AI or ASM projects assisted by InsightVM"
"InsightVM has a very organized GUI with ease of use."
"The most valuable features are its reporting capabilities and the host discovery functionality."
"I have been in contact with technical support and they are not bad."
"I really love the new platform, it is really easy to understand, use, and deploy."
"The reports in Rapid7 InsightVM are useful when compared to competitors."
 

Cons

"An improvement would be some sort of an integration with any GRC suite."
"An improvement would be some sort of an integration with any GRC suite."
"There should be containerization within the VM."
"I’d like to see Rapid7 InsightVM improve by adding a knowledge base similar to what Qualys offers. This would help us easily check and search for vulnerabilities using Rapid7 IDs associated with CVs or CVSS. From a features perspective, everything was fine at the time, and the security features of Rapid7 InsightVM were effective."
"Their customer support should be improved, and the effectiveness of scans also needs to be improved."
"There are certain limitations because of the product being used on a hybrid model. Rapid7 InsightVM doesn't offer a solution purely in the cloud."
"Reporting could be expanded."
"It would be nice to have an additional feature that would provide reports on who has logged onto the console or who did what on the console."
"The solution needs to improve its vulnerability design to include CVC results."
"We'd like the agent to cover more compliance issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think the pricing is based on the number of endpoints, so it's more subscription-based."
"A full license for the solution is expensive because it is at the organizational level and not by individual users."
"Pricing is reasonable because we pay according to asset usage. We can define our assets and sites according to our preference."
"The licensing is asset-based and very straightforward."
"Our licensing costs are somewhere around $40,000 annually. There are no additional fees."
"The solution's pricing is better than Nexus which charges a high amount for very little use."
"We purchase annual licenses."
"The price of the solution is less than the competitors."
"In some cases, we procure the licenses. In some cases, the customers directly buy the license from Rapid7."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Retailer
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise25
 

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How would you choose between Rapid7 InsightVM and Tenable Nessus?
You have full visibility across cloud, network, virtual, and containerized infrastructures with Rapid7 Insight VM. You can easily prioritize vulnerabilities using attacker analytics. Overall, Rapid...
What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightVM?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
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My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that both the setup cost and licensing are great.
 

Also Known As

Kenna.VM, Kenna Security, Kenna, Kenna Security Platform
InsightVM, NeXpose
 

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Sample Customers

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ACS, Acosta, AllianceData, amazon.com, biogen idec, CBRE, CATERPILLAR, Deloitte, COACH, GameStop, IBM
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