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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs Tenable Security Center comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Defender Vulnerab...
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
17th
Ranking in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (23rd), Microsoft Security Suite (23rd)
Tenable Security Center
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
4th
Ranking in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Risk-Based Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is 7.2%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Security Center is 31.4%, down from 38.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

René-SylvainBédard - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 19, 2024
The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database
I have three years of experience with Microsoft Defender and Office 365 for eleven years. My company operates as a shop for Microsoft products, and we have always stayed with Microsoft. We intend to displace the competition when my company enters a new client environment. I have dealt with customers who were using Carbon Black and SentinelOne. My company's customers switched work from their previous products to Microsoft because the tools they were using were power-hungry solutions, which had an impact on production. Microsoft Office 365's premium licenses have many built-in services, which our customers used to use from some other products. With Microsoft products, there is no need for our company's customers to pay extra for licensing charges. The major difference between Carbon Black and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management revolves around areas like stability and integration capabilities within the operating systems, which are strong in Microsoft, especially compared to any of its competitors. The actual depth of knowledge that the platform offers is good because Microsoft has been very rigorous in documenting every single vulnerability that exists for its platform. Microsoft has the most complete list of vulnerabilities for its platform.
Md. Shahriar Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 23, 2024
A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans
Additional costs are associated with using the solution, as additional scanners are required for different endpoints connected to the Tenable Security Center. If Tenable Security Center could extract information from these scanners automatically rather than manually, it would enhance user-friendliness for customers. For example, suppose I manually conducted CIS hardening or compliance scoring in a separate data centre. These scores should also be reflected in the Tenable Security Center dashboard. Since the scanner is connected to the Tenable Security Center, the dashboard should display the direct scan results from the general security centre and the connected scanners. There could be unusual activities or attacks with the rising AI-related issues or threats that the Tenable Security Center could track in the future.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The predictive prioritization features are pretty good. They do a lot of research and we trust the research that they do internally. They have knowledge of what's going on with many companies, where we only get a view into what's going on here. So the ability to get best practices out of them as part of this solution, is valuable to us."
"The tool gives us fewer false positives. Compared to its competitors, the solution’s reports are more accurate."
"This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives."
"The product is our second solution, and we are happy that it meets our requirements."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the vulnerability assessment."
"Has a great advanced scanning feature."
"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."
"Their overall cost of service is pretty good."
 

Cons

"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"The constant changes in the product configuration or the console setup can sometimes be challenging."
"Integration can be improved."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The general support could be improved."
"The pricing is reasonable, but this could be brought down more aggressively, such as we see with Rapid7, Tenable SC's main competitor."
"Additional costs are associated with using the solution, as additional scanners are required for different endpoints connected to the Tenable Security Center. If Tenable Security Center could extract information from these scanners automatically rather than manually, it would enhance user-friendliness for customers."
"Certain aspects require manual effort, such as exporting and analyzing data for our dashboards. The built-in components of the Tenable solution are somewhat clumsy that require external tools. So, this is an area of improvement."
"The biggest issue I have with the solution is when I'm using the scanning it picks up the original DNS of that device. That means, before we image it and actually change the DNS to something within our company structure, it'll just be random numbers and letters and Tenable will stick to that DNS for a long time."
"The web application is not very functional."
"Its reporting can be improved. It is not easy to generate a scan report the way we want. The data is okay, but we can't easily change the template to make it look the way we want."
"The dashboard templates are limited."
"Tenable SC could be improved with additional connectivity to external company postures and the capability of managing and sustaining agents in the systems directly without additional platforms in the middle."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product’s pricing is medium."
"The licensing model follows a per-user per-month structure."
"I rate the product's price a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"The tool is a bit costly."
"The licensing costs are reasonable."
"We pay around 60,000 on a yearly basis."
"The pricing is more than Nexpose."
"The price can start at €10,000 ($13,000 USD) for between 500 and 1,000 assets, and the price can climb into the millions as more assets are added."
"The pricing depends upon the number of IPs."
"For 500 users the licensing fee is roughly $100,000."
"This solution's price is quite high."
"Tenable is open-source."
"Tenable.sc is more expensive than its competitors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
20%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management?
The licensing costs are reasonable. While the solution is not the cheapest, it is competitively priced and aligns with the industry average. There are no significant additional costs beyond the sta...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management?
The constant changes in the product configuration or the console setup can sometimes be challenging. They can be disruptive because we need to adjust to these changes, which can interfere with ongo...
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?
For enterprise customers, it's acceptable. However, for smaller enterprises or businesses, the budget may be too restrictive to consider such extensive solutions. When proposing to small-scale indu...
What needs improvement with Tenable SC?
They are not currently handling call flows properly. Some call flows are being deleted from the registry but still show as active. Support is also lacking in onboarding properly in this area. This ...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter
 

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Sample Customers

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IBM, Sempra Energy, Microsoft, Apple, Adidas, Union Pacific
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