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ArmorCode vs Tenable Security Center comparison

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Categories and Ranking

ArmorCode
Ranking in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
2.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (28th), DevSecOps (11th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (13th)
Tenable Security Center
Ranking in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (18th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (24th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Risk-Based Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of ArmorCode is 2.2%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Security Center is 6.6%, down from 9.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tenable Security Center6.6%
ArmorCode2.2%
Other91.2%
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

Amandeep Pawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
Centralized risk-based workflows have reduced alert fatigue and improve on-time secure delivery
ArmorCode is a strong ASPM platform that provides centralized visibility and risk-based prioritization, and there are several areas where it could be enhanced to improve the user experience and increase adoption across development teams. Improvements could include more AI-powered remediation guidance, improved developer experience, enhanced predictive risk analysis, strong cloud-native visibility such as Kubernetes, custom reporting, and dashboards including custom risk scorecards, team-specific dashboards, and faster onboarding and setup of new security tools. Improvements could also include pre-built integration, automation, automated connector setup, guided onboarding, and better risk connection that assesses criticality, business impact, data sensitivity, and internet exposure. The most important improvements needed are strong cloud-native visibility, enhanced predictive risk analysis, adding AI-powered remediation guidance, and an improved developer experience. Predictive risk analysis is one area that needs enhancement. While ArmorCode is already excellent at centralizing security findings and prioritizing risk, these improvements could further reduce remediation time and make the platform even more valuable for both security and development teams. Enhancing AI-powered remediation guidance would improve developer experience. For AI-powered remediation guidance, instead of only identifying vulnerabilities, ArmorCode could provide detailed fix recommendations, secure code examples, root cause analysis, and automated remediation suggestions.
reviewer1534134 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Information Security at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Centralized analytics have strengthened patch visibility and support efficient regulatory reporting
From my experience, I assess the product's analytics capabilities as successful. It helped us significantly with patching and managing the risk of the patching process across all our environments, including network devices with Windows and Unix systems. The product covered several environments and gave us exactly what we needed in our environment. Tenable Security Center's centralized platform helped with risk assessment and management across our IT environments. It covered the patching process, and we previously faced many issues regarding how to patch different environments, how to monitor the patching process, and whether it was successful or not. We obtained good reports showing when patches were closed and the details of each patch, including who executed it and everything related to the patching process until it was closed. This gave us good details about the process which helped us significantly in our reporting and even in audits, whether internal or external. We learned how to close audit issues safely and successfully. We used the dashboards for real-time threat insights and extracted several dashboards from Tenable Security Center. We use these dashboards in our cybersecurity dashboard and committees that we have. These dashboards are part of our committees, especially the cybersecurity committee and other committees that we attend.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The positive impact of ArmorCode on our organization includes improved vulnerability prioritization and better collaboration between security and development teams, as instead of discussing thousands of findings, we focus on critical risks, significantly reducing unnecessary effort and allowing the team to quickly identify high-risk vulnerabilities and assign remediation to application owners."
"ArmorCode is very effective software that reduces human effort and saves time, has a huge impact on the company's revenue and profit, and we deliver everything on time to the client because of ArmorCode."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"Tenable SC is good for reporting and alerting. The filtering feature is also very valuable. Its integration with multiple vendors is quite good. It can be integrated with SIEM solutions and PAM solutions such as Thycotic, which is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature of the product is the Assurance Report Card, which gives us an overview of the security poster in just a simple glance."
"The most valuable features in Tenable SC are scanning and analysis."
"Support is knowledgeable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the dashboards and speed of the test, and Tenable.sc is user-friendly."
"It increases the trust in the information from the tool, cuts down on accusations of false-positives, helps people do their job better, helps us to understand our cyber-exposure, and helps us focus resources on the vulnerabilities that are most likely to be exploited."
"Feature-wise, Tenable Security Center is a very fast tool with many dashboards and reports, and it covers all our systems."
 

Cons

"I would like to see more AI-driven remediation recommendations, deeper contextual risk analysis, and additional workflow automation for the enterprise environment."
"Improvements could include more AI-powered remediation guidance, improved developer experience, enhanced predictive risk analysis, strong cloud-native visibility such as Kubernetes, custom reporting, and dashboards including custom risk scorecards, team-specific dashboards, and faster onboarding and setup of new security tools."
"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."
"The solution should include compliance-based scanning."
"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."
"Though the solution's technical support is responsive, they do take a lot of time, making it one of the solution's shortcomings that needs improvement."
"Tenable's reporting engine needs improvement. It needs to be more efficient and add more features."
"To be honest, I find SecurityCenter to be lacking in too many ways where my usage of it has been concerned."
"In the next release, we would like to see the inclusion of external IPs and simplified reporting that's easier to deal with."
"The solution is expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"For 500 users the licensing fee is roughly $100,000."
"Though reasonable, the main competitor of Tenable SC, Rapid7, offers a more aggressive and better priced product."
"Tenable is open-source."
"We pay around 60,000 on a yearly basis."
"It is a bit expensive. Everything is included in the license."
"The price of Tenable SC is expensive, we pay approximately €70,000 for the license annually. We have to pay for each IP test. The cost of other solutions is far less, such as Nessus Professional, which is €3,000 annually."
"Compared to other companies or other products it could maybe be a little bit less, but the price is okay. I would say it's not very expensive."
"The tool costs around 15,000 Saudi riyals monthly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise27
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with ArmorCode?
I would like to see more AI-driven remediation recommendations, deeper contextual risk analysis, and additional workflow automation for the enterprise environment. I wish ArmorCode could offer more...
What is your primary use case for ArmorCode?
I started using ArmorCode in 2024 as part of our application security and exposure management program, with the objective to consolidate the security findings from multiple security tools into a si...
What advice do you have for others considering ArmorCode?
My advice for others looking into using ArmorCode is to take your time. I recommend integrating as many security tools as possible into ArmorCode, as the platform delivers the most value when it fu...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tenable SC?
The price of Tenable Security Center is not so high; it's relatively a cheaper solution.
What needs improvement with Tenable SC?
We did conduct a long implementation which relates to what I think can be improved about Tenable Security Center. In some cases, we needed to refer back to Tenable itself, and in other cases, we ne...
What is your primary use case for Tenable SC?
The typical use case for Tenable Security Center is that it is an on-premise solution, and it can use the agent and active scanning, which is needed by governmental organizations and manufacturers,...
 

Also Known As

ArmorCode AppSecOps Platform
Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter
 

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Sample Customers

Shutterfly, S&P Global, Snap Finance, Snapdocs, and The Access Group
IBM, Sempra Energy, Microsoft, Apple, Adidas, Union Pacific
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