We performed a comparison between Skybox Security Suite 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 features that I have found most valuable with Skybox Security Suite, and this is because I work on the security side, are the firewall assurance, the change manager and the vulnerability control. These three features are the most impressive from Skybox Security."
"The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up"
"Overall, the tool has helped us reduce risks. If any step is missing, it's easier for my team or engineers to identify it. The tool provides accurate recommendations based on the data. Its integration is easy, and I have integrated it with Fortinet firewalls."
"The revalidation and policy recertifications are most valuable."
"The performance could be good because we chose it at the time, but it is too complex for us to appreciate its performance because we lack the necessary skills."
"The most valuable feature is firewall management."
"This type of tool does a great job of reaching into those other devices producing risk recommendations, compliance recommendations, and a single plane of glass to do your queries, so you can find where these rules might exist."
"Aside from Firewall Assurance, we are using Network Assurance and Change Manager for an overview of the whole network and for documenting requests and the recertification of the ruleset."
"It is a mature tool."
"It provides multiple recommendations towards the remedy of vulnerabilities."
"Tenable Nessus streamlines the process of scanning for our organization."
"Tenable Nessus is cheap and flexible."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is website scanning."
"The product's most valuable features are vulnerability and asset management. It can define the rules and validate the configuration."
"The solution is very stable."
"Tenable Nessus is an absolutely stable and fantastic product."
"The vendor's support is terrible."
"The price is costly, and I hope they can reduce the cost."
"The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving."
"The stability is something that is questionable. I don't know whether it is because of the kind of infrastructure we have or because of the product in itself. We're running it on a virtual machine right now. Maybe once a month, or once in every 45 days, it requires a restart because the application fails to connect. So I have to restart the whole Skybox Manager itself, the Skybox server itself, and then connect to it from our Skybox Manager."
"The primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."
"Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use."
"The solution needs to move improve its interface to a full web browser version that is more accessible and doesn't require installation for use."
"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say its reporting portion."
"The price could be reduced."
"Some things in the user interface could be better. The user interface could allow more adjustments to plugins. The price could also be better."
"To be honest, I haven't used it much to tell you that these are the things that should be improved. But I believe the UI should be enhanced somewhat. For example, there are two ways to find a report, and people are frequently confused as to which is the correct method for locating a full report. Sometimes they go in the opposite direction, so this is an area that may be improved."
"I would like to see an improvement in the ranking of high, medium and low vulnerability."
"EQA's and dashboards should be addressed in the next release."
"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."
"They have added a new Tenable Nessus Expert. That is their new product, which caters to the cloud and everything else. I am assuming that the new features and product enhancements are based on that tool set, but we haven't reviewed it yet."
Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Pentera. See our Skybox Security Suite vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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