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Tenable Security Center pros and cons

Vendor: Tenable
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

Tenable Security Center offers a valuable Assurance Report Card that provides a clear overview of the security stance.
It supports highly customizable scanning policies that are particularly useful in environments with strict vendor controls.
Features distributed scan models that enhance efficiency by allowing multiple scans simultaneously across different environments.
Includes predictive prioritization which is supported by extensive internal research, aiding in focusing resources on critical vulnerabilities.
Allows integration with multiple vendors, enhancing its utility and effectiveness in various security infrastructures.

CONS

Configuration flexibility is limited and creating low-managed scan policies involves significant effort.
For web application scanning and reporting, improvements are needed to simplify and enhance functionality.
Pricing is considered high compared to main competitors and additional costs are associated with added scanners.
Initial configuration is complex, requiring integration with other on-prem solutions, which can take weeks.
Tenable SC reports and plugins lack features present in other solutions like Qualys.
 

Tenable Security Center Pros review quotes

reviewer1230882 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
JS
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.
JA
Aug 16, 2023
The scanning part, the agent part – that's the valuable aspect.
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JK
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.
OniRahman - PeerSpot reviewer
May 8, 2024
Support is knowledgeable.
JoaoManso - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 4, 2020
This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives.
reviewer1468566 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 6, 2021
The feature we've liked most recently was being able to take the YARA rules from FireEye and put them into Tenable's scan for the most recent SolarWinds exploit. That was really useful.
BJ
Dec 13, 2018
We really love the Security Center dashboard. It basically performs vulnerability scanning and then outputs a vulnerability data.
Md. Shahriar Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 23, 2024
The most important features are the dashboard and reporting. The dashboard provides statistics with graphs and bar charts for our management.
reviewer1498950 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 19, 2021
Their overall cost of service is pretty good.
 

Tenable Security Center Cons review quotes

reviewer1230882 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
JS
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.
JA
Aug 16, 2023
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.
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JK
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.
OniRahman - PeerSpot reviewer
May 8, 2024
Support could be faster.
JoaoManso - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 4, 2020
The integration is very good, although it still needs to improve.
reviewer1468566 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 6, 2021
I will say it's a lot slower compared to an MS scan. It takes so much longer, so the performance could definitely be worked on.
BJ
Dec 13, 2018
A good plugin editor would be a good additional option for the Security Center.
Md. Shahriar Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 23, 2024
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.
reviewer1498950 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 19, 2021
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.