We performed a comparison between Tenable.io Container Security and Snyk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Tenable.io Container Security excels at identifying weaknesses and misconfigurations. Snyk is commended for its scanning features and ability to generate pull requests and resolve problems automatically. Tenable.io Container Security could its auto-remediation, asset visibility, and compliance system customization. Snyk could work on improving compatibility while expanding its vulnerability database and enhancing its reporting mechanism.
Service and Support: Users say Tenable.io support is hindered by technical challenges. Some users said they value Snyk's proactive approach and the abundance of resources they provide, while others said that Snyk should rethink how their support team organizes and prioritizes requests.
Ease of Deployment: Both products are relatively easy to set up with good support from their respective teams.The setup process for Tenable.io Container Security is made easier by solid documentation. Tenable.io takes around one or two weeks to deploy on average, while Snyk's implementation process can take a couple of days or a few weeks. Integrating Snyk with different repositories or CI/CD systems is generally considered to be simple, although some users reported challenges.
Pricing: Tenable.io Container Security's cost is determined by the application's page count. Snyk's pricing is viewed as costly compared to alternative options. Nevertheless, but many users said that Snyk's pricing is justifiable for businesses, as it includes integrated features and avoids additional expenses.
ROI: Tenable.io Container Security yields an ROI by enhancing container security and averting security incidents. Snyk emphasizes economical bug resolution early in the development process, possibly resulting in a significant return on investment.
Comparison Results: Tenable.io Container Security is preferred Snyk. Users appreciate its efficient setup process, extensive vulnerability detection, and ability to identify misconfiguration. Tenable.io Container Security also offers superior technical support and a customizable compliance system. Snyk lacks some of the advanced features and support options provided by Tenable.io.
"Cloud Native Security is user-friendly. Everything in the Cloud Native Security tool is straightforward, including detections, integration, reporting, etc. They are constantly improving their UI by adding plugins and other features."
"It is fairly simple. Anybody can use it."
"It is pretty easy to integrate with this platform. When properly integrated, it monitors end-to-end."
"The ease of use of the platform is very nice."
"The UI is very good."
"We like the platform and its response time. We also like that its console is user-friendly as well as modern and sleek."
"The mean time to detect has been reduced."
"We like PingSafe's vulnerability assessment and management features, and its vulnerability databases."
"We're loving some of the Kubernetes integration as well. That's really quite cool. It's still in the early days of our use of it, but it looks really exciting. In the Kubernetes world, it's very good at reporting on the areas around the configuration of your platform, rather than the things that you've pulled in. There's some good advice there that allows you to prioritize whether something is important or just worrying. That's very helpful."
"From the software composition analysis perspective, it first makes sure that we understand what is happening from a third-party perspective for the particular product that we use. This is very difficult when you are building software and incorporating dependencies from other libraries, because those dependencies have dependencies and that chain of dependencies can go pretty deep. There could be a vulnerability in something that is seven layers deep, and it would be very difficult to understand that is even affecting us. Therefore, Snyk provides fantastic visibility to know, "Yes, we have a problem. Here is where it ultimately comes from." It may not be with what we're incorporating, but something much deeper than that."
"The most effective feature in securing project dependencies stems from its ability to highlight security vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Snyk is the SBOM."
"It is one of the best product out there to help developers find and fix vulnerabilities quickly. When we talk about the third-party software vulnerability piece and potentially security issues, it takes the load off the user or developer. They even provide automitigation strategies and an auto-fix feature, which seem to have been adopted pretty well."
"Snyk helps me pinpoint security errors in my code."
"Snyk is a developer-friendly product."
"Snyk categorizes the level of vulnerability into high, medium, and low, which helps organizations prioritize which issues to tackle first."
"The strong security provided by the product in the container environment is its most valuable feature."
"The tool's most valuable feature is scanning, reporting, and troubleshooting."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, it is a good solution."
"It helps us secure our applications from the build phase and identify the weaknesses from scratch."
"Tenable.io detects misconfiguration when you deploy a Docker or Kubernetes container. It's much better to remedy these issues during deployment instead of waiting until the container is already in the production environment."
"Currently, I haven't implemented the solution due to its deprecation by the site. However, I can highlight some benefits of Tenable Cloud Security, a cybersecurity solution with various features for scanning vulnerabilities in both cloud environments and on-premises container security."
"Nessus scanner is very effective for internal penetration testing."
"Some of the navigation and some aspects of the portal may be a little bit confusing."
"The recommended actions aren't always specific, so it might suggest recommendations that don't apply to the particular infrastructure code I'm reviewing."
"The categorization of the results from the vulnerability assessment could be improved."
"We are experiencing problems with Cloud Native Security reporting."
"The Automation tab is an add-on that doesn’t work properly. They provide a list of scripts that don’t work and I have asked support to assist but they won’t help. When running on various endpoints the script doesn’t work and if it does, it’s only a couple. There are a lot of useful scripts that would be beneficial to run forensics, event logs, and process lists running on the endpoint."
"There is no break-glass account feature. They should implement this as soon as possible because we can't implement SSO without a break-glass feature."
"When we get a new finding from PingSafe, I wish we could get an alert in the console, so we can work on it before we see it in the report. It would be very useful for the team that is actively working on the PingSafe platform, so we can close the issue the same day before it appears in the daily report."
"They need more experienced support personnel."
"The way Snyk notifies if we have an issue, there are a few options: High vulnerability or medium vulnerability. The problem with that is high vulnerabilities are too broad, because there are too many. If you enable notifications, you get a lot of notifications, When you get many notifications, they become irrelevant because they're not specific. I would prefer to have control over the notifications and somehow decide if I want to get only exploitable vulnerabilities or get a specific score for a vulnerability. Right now, we receive too many high vulnerabilities. If we enable notifications, then we just get a lot of spam message. Therefore, we would like some type of filtering system to be built-in for the system to be more precise."
"Generating reports and visibility through reports are definitely things they can do better."
"The solution could improve the reports. They have been working on improving the reports but more work could be done."
"Could include other types of security scanning and statistical analysis"
"The solution's reporting and storage could be improved."
"It would be helpful if we get a recommendation while doing the scan about the necessary things we need to implement after identifying the vulnerabilities."
"I would like to give further ability to grouping code repositories, in such a way that you could group them by the teams that own them, then produce alerting to those teams. The way that we are seeing it right now, the alerting only goes to a couple of places. I wish we could configure the code to go to different places."
"The feature for automatic fixing of security breaches could be improved."
"The initial setup is highly complex."
"Tenable.io Container Security should improve integration modules. It should also improve stability."
"I believe integration plays a crucial role for Tenable, particularly in terms of connecting with other products and various container solutions like Docker or Kubernetes. It seems that in future updates, enhanced integration is something I would appreciate. Currently, there is integration with Docker, but when it comes to Kubernetes or other container solutions, it appears to be a challenge, especially with on-prem scanners."
"The stability and setup phase of the product are areas with shortcomings where improvements are needed."
"I feel that in certain areas this product has false positives which the company should work on. They should also try to include business logic vulnerabilities in the scanner testing. Finally, the vulnerability assessment feature should be increased to other hardware devices, apart from firewalls."
"The support is tricky to reach, so we would like better-oriented technical support enabled."
"They need to work on auto-remediation so it's easier for the security team to act quickly when certain assets or resources are deployed. The latest version has a CIS benchmark that you need to meet for containers in the cloud, but more automation is needed."
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Snyk is ranked 5th in Container Security with 41 reviews while Tenable.io Container Security is ranked 21st in Container Security with 7 reviews. Snyk is rated 8.2, while Tenable.io Container Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Snyk writes "Performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable.io Container Security writes "It helps you catch misconfigurations before they go into a production environment where they're harder to deal with". Snyk is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, GitHub Advanced Security, Fortify Static Code Analyzer and Veracode, whereas Tenable.io Container Security is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, Wiz, Trivy and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes. See our Snyk vs. Tenable.io Container Security report.
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