We performed a comparison between Tenable.sc and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Tenable.sc provides accurate vulnerability detection, compliance, and asset discovery, while Wiz prioritizes risks and offers context in the cloud environment. Tenable.sc has a user-friendly interface, while Wiz has easy-to-read dashboards and agentless scanning. Tenable.sc needs to work on its penetration testing, pricing, reporting, integrations, and accuracy of vulnerability assessment. Users have struggled with support difficulties. On the other hand, Wiz requires preventive controls, refined reporting, customizable dashboards, improved risk assessment, more frequent scans, and better tenant management.
Service and Support: Tenable.sc's customer service has received both positive and negative feedback, as some customers have appreciated the assistance provided while others have faced delays. In contrast, Wiz's customer service has been praised for its exceptional technical support and accessibility to account representatives.
Ease of Deployment: Tenable.sc may take longer and needs integration, while Wiz is a low-maintenance SaaS. Tenable.sc is easy to implement, but Wiz offers immediate value and visibility.
Pricing: Tenable.sc's pricing varies depending on the number of IP addresses scanned and additional costs for advanced support. Opinions on pricing differ. Wiz's pricing is deemed fair and straightforward, but there are concerns about potential price increases and lack of clarity in pricing. Wiz's pricing is viewed as reasonable given its capabilities and features in comparison to Tenable.sc.
ROI: Tenable.sc helps save on manpower costs and ensures a positive return on investment. On the other hand, Wiz focuses on improving asset management, container image maintenance, and compliance monitoring, and continues to add new features.
Comparison Results: Tenable.sc is the preferred choice over Wiz due to its comprehensive features, accurate vulnerability detection, and user-friendly interface. Tenable.sc offers advanced scanning, prioritization, and automation that make it easier for users to track remediation progress and validate compliance. Although Wiz is commended for its ability to provide context and prioritize risks in the cloud environment, users have identified areas for improvement, such as the need for preventive controls and more refined reporting capabilities.
"The tool gives us fewer false positives. Compared to its competitors, the solution’s reports are more accurate."
"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."
"Tenable's most valuable features are the credential scan, vulnerability reports, and vulnerability ratings (VPR)."
"Tenable also helps us to focus resources on the vulnerabilities that are most likely to be exploited. And since it is continuously updated, it allows us to reevaluate quickly if there are new vulnerabilities found..."
"Compared to other products, the most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and ability to provide visibility over scan results while providing many templates to users, making it a helpful tool."
"Feature-wise, Tenable Security Center is a very fast tool with many dashboards and reports, and it covers all our systems."
"Tenable.sc's best features are the availability model, accident management, and scoring."
"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."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"The tool's initial configuration is not so easy."
"The vulnerability scan does not work correctly until the access privileges are set by the system administrator."
"In terms of configuration, there is some level of flexibility that we are not able to achieve."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution's user interface has some issues."
"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."
"The user interface can be improved."
"Tenable SC could improve by making the creation of the initial reports easier that correspond to our network."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews while Wiz is ranked 4th in Vulnerability Management with 11 reviews. Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM and Forescout Platform, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and AWS Security Hub. See our Tenable Security Center vs. Wiz report.
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