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Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) vs Tenable Nessus comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Cisco Vulnerability Managem...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Cisco Security Portfolio (11th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (19th)
Tenable Nessus
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM) is designed for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management and holds a mindshare of 3.3%, up 1.7% compared to last year.
Tenable Nessus, on the other hand, focuses on Vulnerability Management, holds 12.6% mindshare, down 15.3% since last year.
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

AshishPaliwal - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Matthew Weisler - PeerSpot reviewer
Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results
The solution has a single price for unlimited assets. Value wise, the solution is also great for pen testers and consultants. The solution is useful for vulnerability and patch management from both the internal and public facing sides. Quick assessments, compliance scores, and results are provided without having to do agents.

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 solution is great for scanning servers."
"Tenable Nessus is one of the best vulnerability assessment tools, that I know."
"It allows me to prioritize efforts and utilize effective technical resources."
"Easy to set up vulnerability scanner with good stability and a responsive technical support team."
"The vulnerability scanner is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is vulnerability assessments. There are a lot of threats around the world and this solution is the first to come out with detection rules."
"It's scalable."
"You can then direct your team to create a report on the discovered vulnerabilities."
 

Cons

"An improvement would be some sort of an integration with any GRC suite."
"We'd like to see more integration potential within the solution."
"From my point of view the solution basically is not for the big enterprise."
"They need more flexible pricing."
"Tenable Nessus could improve the reporting."
"The reporting feature needs to be improved."
"Sometimes, the categorization for clients was tricky at first, however, they eventually got used to it."
"They should try to create an all-in-one solution."
"It wasn't very clear how the scripts are running the scans. There's information about the script but it's not straightforward. The script information for each of the plugins should be available, but it doesn't give us straightforward direct information about how it was executed. That needs to be more clear."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think the pricing is based on the number of endpoints, so it's more subscription-based."
"Nessus is affordable, but its licensing model could be improved with more flexibility for adding assets."
"The solution has a single price for unlimited assets."
"There is an annual license required to use this solution."
"Tenable Nessus is affordable."
"The product is free."
"The price of Tenable Nessus is much more competitive versus other solutions on the market."
"It has a fair cost and very good cost-benefit ratio."
"The price of Tenable Nessus could improve, it is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
7%
Educational Organization
40%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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's the difference between Tenable Nessus and Tenable.io Vulnerability Management?
Tenable Nessus is a vulnerability assessment solution that is both easy to deploy and easy to manage. The design of the program is such that if a company should desire to handle the installation t...
What do you like most about Tenable Nessus?
We have around 500 virtual machines. Therefore, we conduct monthly scans and open tickets for our developers to address identified vulnerabilities. These scans cover the servers, other network equi...
 

Also Known As

Kenna.VM, Kenna Security, Kenna, Kenna Security Platform
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Sample Customers

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Bitbrains, Tesla, Just Eat, Crosskey Banking Solutions, Covenant Health, Youngstown State University
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