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Tenable Security Center pros and cons

Vendor: Tenable

4.1 out of 5

56 reviews
96% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Tenable Security Center offers precise vulnerability assessments with minimal false results, enhancing network security. Its Assurance Report Card provides quick security insights, while customizable scanning policies and a distributed scan model boost efficiency. Seamless SIEM and PAM integration adds versatility. However, reporting flexibility, scan policy configuration, pricing competitiveness, deployment complexity, and technical support quality need improvement, making it less optimal compared to competitors like Rapid7.

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PROS

Tenable Security Center excels at providing accurate vulnerability assessments with the fewest false positives and negatives, enhancing network protection.

The Assurance Report Card delivers a quick security overview for users, enabling them to understand their security posture at a glance.

Highly customizable scanning policies allow organizations to perform efficient vulnerability scans without disrupting operations, especially in sensitive environments.

Its distributed scan model and automatic scanning distribution enable effective coordination of multiple engines, maximizing efficiency across various environments.

Seamless integration with SIEM and PAM solutions enhances security operations, making Tenable Security Center a versatile and adaptable tool.

CONS

Reporting needs improvement in template flexibility and metadata export capabilities.

Configuration lacks flexibility, requiring considerable effort for basic scan policy creation.

Pricing could be more aggressive compared to competitors like Rapid7.

Deployment is complex and requires significant integration with on-prem solutions.

Technical support quality has declined, with longer response times and less thorough assistance.

Tenable Security Center Pros review quotes

AN

Senior Manager, IT Security at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 28, 2018

The most valuable feature of the product is the Assurance Report Card, which gives us an overview of the security poster in just a simple glance.

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BJ

Information Security Expert at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 13, 2018

We really love the Security Center dashboard. It basically performs vulnerability scanning and then outputs a vulnerability data.

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Assistant Manager - Cyber & Cloud Security at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 9, 2019

I think that this is a good solution for evaluating vulnerability in the network.

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JS

Medical Device Cybersecurity Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 30, 2019

What is useful to me is being able to fulfill very customized scanning policies. In the clinical environment, because of vendor control, we can't perform credential-vulnerability scanning. And network scans, which I've done before, can cause a lot of impact. Being able to create very customized policies to be able to routinely scan and audit our clinical networks, while simultaneously not causing impact, is important to us.

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JK

IT Security Specialist at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 30, 2019

One of the most valuable features is their distributed scan model for allotting engines to work together as a pool and handle multiple scans at once, across multiple environments. Automatic scanning distribution is a distinguishing feature of their toolset.

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MN

Tech consultant at select softwares

Sep 20, 2019

This solution has a much lower rate of false positives compared to competing products.

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reviewer1230882

Sr. Principal IT Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 14, 2019

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.

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IT Consultant - Microsoft Design and Implementation at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 6, 2020

The scans are the most valuable aspect of this solution.

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CIO / IT Consultant at RedShift

Jun 4, 2020

This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives.

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Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sep 8, 2020

Very customizable with a lot of templates.

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Tenable Security Center Cons review quotes

AN

Senior Manager, IT Security at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 28, 2018

In terms of configuration, there is some level of flexibility that we are not able to achieve.

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BJ

Information Security Expert at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 13, 2018

A good plugin editor would be a good additional option for the Security Center.

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Assistant Manager - Cyber & Cloud Security at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 9, 2019

The web application scanning area can be improved.

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JS

Medical Device Cybersecurity Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 30, 2019

If I want to have a very low-managed scan policy, it's a lot of work to create something which is very basic. If I use a tool like Nmap, all I have to do is download it, install it, type in the command, and it's good to go. In Security Center, I have to go through a lot of work to create a policy that's very basic.

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JK

IT Security Specialist at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 30, 2019

It's good at creating information, it's good creating dashboards, it's good at creating reports, but if you want to take that reporting metadata and put it into another tool, that is a little bit lacking.

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MN

Tech consultant at select softwares

Sep 20, 2019

The vulnerability scan does not work correctly until the access privileges are set by the system administrator.

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reviewer1230882

Sr. Principal IT Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 14, 2019

There's a lot of information being streamed out of the reports. What would be nice, and maybe we just haven't found it, would be more of an executive-type view. We still expect it to collect all this information, but we would like a feature that would allow us to show it to an executive or a director or someone like that and give them some type of high-level overview but not get into the nitty-gritty.

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IT Consultant - Microsoft Design and Implementation at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 6, 2020

The reporting needs a lot of work on the template.

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CIO / IT Consultant at RedShift

Jun 4, 2020

The integration is very good, although it still needs to improve.

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Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sep 8, 2020

Current web page needs improvement, slows down processes.

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