We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"I like the fact that it was not expensive. I like that it's user-friendly."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to understand."
"It also has an executive report where you don't have to provide the client all the detail for them to sift though. But if they wish to dig through the detail they can."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that you receive the entire report, which details the breakdown, especially in terms of critical, high, low, and mediums."
"Its initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"It is easy to deploy and easy to use. Its reporting is good. From this reporting, you can see the pain point in your network, which makes it easy to fix them. It is easy to understand the reports and export them."
"The automatic scanner and scheduler are pretty cool."
"Scanners and reports using CIS templates ("de-facto" standard, easy to fix and to locate correction tips at documentation), tests against cloud providers, database profiles, several types of telecom devices, and others highly customizable scans."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"Integration can be improved."
"The general support could be improved."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"Multiple user access would be an area for improvement from a user-access perspective. A role-based access control feature would be great because at present, there is a limitation with only one account. If that account gets compromised or gets locked, then we will encounter problems."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with different vendors' IPS solutions. The ACLs and IPS policies signatures should be enabled based on the results of Tenable Nessus automatically, we currently have to do it manually which is very time-consuming. It has done a good job integrating with Fortinet but we would like it to be better integrated with other solutions that we have."
"The features are limited when it comes to scanning network devices for vulnerabilities."
"The solution should be able to support more devices."
"The report for counters is too simple and would be improved by a dashboard."
"Scans aren't done properly and some devices aren't pinged."
"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."
"The price and scalability of the solution could improve."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 23rd in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management writes "The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Rapid7 Metasploit. See our Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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