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SentinelOne Singularity Identity vs Tenable Nessus comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

SentinelOne Singularity Ide...
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (10th), Threat Deception Platforms (3rd), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (4th)
Tenable Nessus
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Identity is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Nessus is 13.9%, down from 17.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

Nityanand Chauracia - PeerSpot reviewer
May 6, 2024
Offers a unified view, a user-friendly console, and reduces our MTTD
Unlike Prisma, where feature requests are added to their roadmap and implemented in future releases, SentinelOne Singularity Identity's process prioritizes immediate attention to our requests, ensuring a faster turnaround time. SentinelOne Singularity Identity offers a unified view of our cloud-native security landscape, which is valuable despite some minor filtering issues. The cloud-native security team is actively addressing these challenges, demonstrating their commitment to user feedback. Managing our environment using the Singularity console is easy and that helps with troubleshooting. We are happy with SentinelOne Singularity Identity's ability to identify and prevent threats. SentinelOne Singularity Identity has reduced our mean time to detect identity-based attacks. It saves two hours per detection.
AG
Apr 11, 2023
You can customize the tool to scan exactly what you want
My favorite part about Nessus is that you can customize the tool to scan exactly what you want. Microsoft releases new patches monthly on Patch Tuesday, and a lot of companies track that date. I set up Nessus for the day after Patch Tuesday to see which devices have already pushed those updates from Microsoft, so we can stay updated. Tenable stays on top of new IT trends in vulnerability management because there's constant innovation. They keep up with the industry. In the past few years, everything has shifted to cloud-based servers. It's a long-term trend that COVID accelerated. Tenable came out with a tool for that.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"They have different levels of support. We have the highest level where they are constantly checking all the endpoints. If at any certain point, they identify that a computer has been triggered by a virus, a link, or something else, they would automatically tell us that within 15 seconds. If they notice something, they automatically send us an email saying that they noticed something in the computer, and they are going to block it."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"The protection provided by SentinelOne Singularity Identity is the most valuable feature."
"The biggest value for us is getting a much better picture of what our risks are."
"While I've experience with many CSPM solutions, SentinelOne Singularity Identity stands out."
"The incident and threat logs are great."
"SentinelOne Singularity Identity is very lightweight as an agent or software."
"The AI provides a futuristic ML model. That helps a lot when it comes to shifting security approaches and hep better forecast attacks."
"Nessus is effortless to integrate."
"Easy to set up vulnerability scanner with good stability and a responsive technical support team."
"Tenable Nessus streamlines the process of scanning for our organization."
"I have experience with it on my attack stations, and it's pretty good to optimize. Personally, I think Nessus is quite a good product."
"The most valuable feature is the installation of Tenable which is incredibly easy."
"The most valuable feature is the breadth of vulnerabilities that it finds. It's able to find across a lot of different platforms and operating systems. It's also able to combine local testing with network-based testing."
"Tenable Nessus is an absolutely stable and fantastic product."
"The features of Tenable Nessus that I have found most valuable are its reliability and its ability to collate a dependable output, where we are able to get the same vulnerability when we test manually. The output is quite reliable."
 

Cons

"The alerts take four hours to generate in our AWS console."
"The root cause of automation could be better."
"Agent connectivity can be improved, as it is one aspect of the product with certain shortcomings."
"The first-level support has room for improvement."
"Sometimes I get kicked out of the console. I don't know why."
"A lot of those features came from an acquisition of a different company."
"The resolution turnaround from SentinelOne Singularity Identity's support should be improved."
"The policies could be more precise, and Singularity should use more templates like alternative solutions have. Endpoint management is poor. We cannot manage individual endpoints and must rely on policies, exclusions, or block lists to apply settings to a group instead of the individual agent. If I have to make settings for one computer, I need to create a group, apply the configuration, and move the agent there. It's challenging to manage endpoints that way."
"Tenable Nessus could improve reporting and information sharing. It would be helpful if we could share the reports and have a little bit better flexibility in the reporting of the data."
"The scalability of Tenable Nessus is good. However, it could be more flexible."
"It would be a good idea if they have a simulation of attacks or a use case for finding a new vulnerability or dealing with a zero-day attack."
"EQA's and dashboards should be addressed in the next release."
"We'd like to see more integration potential within the solution."
"One area that has room for improvement is the reporting. I'm preparing reports for Windows and Linux machines, etc. Currently, I'm collecting three or four reports and turning them into one report. I don't know if it is possible to combine all of them in one report, but that would be helpful."
"I would like to see more on the automation side."
"We use credentialed scans. They need more permissions and more changes or settings on Windows and Linux."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"SentinelOne Singularity Identity's pricing is cheaper than CrowdStrike and is really good."
"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges associated with the product...I think the prices associated with the product are okay and it is not too expensive."
"Its price is a little bit high. It is a nice product, but it comes at a cost. Compared to other products, it is not cheap, but you sometimes have to pay for the value you get. It is not cheap, but it is worth it."
"SentinelOne seemed to offer more while being priced lower than its competitors."
"The price of SentinelOne Singularity Identity is relatively high, but it offers numerous features and capabilities that make it well worth the investment."
"The cost of SentinelOne Singularity Identity is better than CrowdStrike."
"Ideally, I would like SentinelOne to lower their prices a little bit."
"The price is affordable."
"In general, it is extremely expensive."
"I would like to see better discounts."
"It has a fair cost and very good cost-benefit ratio."
"The price is okay. I would give it a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."
"The price is high for the solution. There are free tools with similar functionality available. The solution cost approximately $3,500."
"The solution is worth the cost. It's a good investment."
"I rate the product's price seven or eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
"While Tenable Nessus is a good enterprise solution, the high price would likely make it prohibitive to smaller organizations."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
38%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Does SentinelOne have a Virtual Patching functionality?
Yes -- SentinelOne has a Virtual Patching functionality called Virtual Patching and Exploit Shield. This preventive security solution uses behavioral AI to identify and block zero-day attacks and v...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SentinelOne Singularity Identity?
The pricing is okay when compared to other solutions. It's moderate, and the cost is not overly high or low.
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...
 

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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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