We performed a comparison between Amazon Inspector 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 automated vulnerability detection aspect is most valuable."
"The findings dashboards are neat and easy to understand, offering clear demarcations for different types of findings and detailed insights into specific vulnerabilities and their associated instances. It is not a place where everything is dumped together. It offers an easy-to-understand layout."
"The integration of Amazon Inspector with other AWS services has enhanced our security. Security Hub is a major asset because it allows us to centralize data from various AWS services. We can integrate third-party tools as well. It is just a single-click option."
"The vulnerability discovery is valuable, and they also rank those vulnerabilities for you. So, you could rapidly attack some of the higher, severe vulnerabilities as they pop up, if they do pop up."
"Tenable Nessus is an absolutely stable and fantastic product."
"The automatic scanner and scheduler are pretty cool."
"The scanning capabilities are most valuable when compared to Nessus."
"Nessus gives me a good preview of vulnerabilities and good suggestions for remediation. It's easy to find a description of a given vulnerability and solutions for it."
"The reports are pretty nice and easy to understand."
"Nessus' most valuable feature is vulnerability management because it helps to discover vulnerabilities proactively and integrates with patch management solutions so you can push patches."
"Its initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is vulnerability assessments. There are a lot of threats around the world and this solution is the first to come out with detection rules."
"One major area for improvement is remediation. My team works on remediating findings over time, likely using available patches. However, easier integration with Amazon's patching services would be very helpful."
"There is room for improvement in the scanning capabilities. I'd like to see broader coverage in terms of the vulnerabilities detected."
"It has a limited scope. So, AWS Inspector primarily focuses on the security of the EC2 instance. So, if your architecture includes other AWS services, then you may need to use additional tools for your comprehensive security assessment. So that is one con. Another is, like, we have a dependency on agents."
"There isn't too much to improve right now. Scanning on demand or as a part of the pipeline versus a post pipeline solution would be good, but it is not a deal breaker by any means."
"The inventory management function in this solution needs improvement."
"The reports are okay, but the interface is a bit difficult to navigate in some cases."
"In Nessus Professional, the main drawback was that we could have a single-user login password. So it could be better in terms of security."
"There is room for improvement in finishing the transition to the cloud. We'd like to see them keep on improving the Tenable.io product, so that we can migrate to it entirely, instead of having to keep the Tenable.sc on-prem product."
"The price could be reduced."
"There is room, overall, for improvement in the way it groups the workstations and the way it detects, when the vulnerability is scanned. Even when we would run a new scan, if it was an already existing vulnerability, it wouldn't put a new date on it."
"It would be nice for the professional module to include some of the reports available in the expert module."
"We have had some false positives in the past, which we hope can improve in the future."
Amazon Inspector is ranked 27th in Vulnerability Management with 4 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Amazon Inspector is rated 7.8, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon Inspector writes "Primarily focuses on security of EC2 instances, provides point-in-time assessments rather than real time protection but provides automated vulnerability detection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Amazon Inspector is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Lumin and Microsoft Secure Score, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus. See our Amazon Inspector vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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