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Blast Preemptive Cloud Defense Platform vs Tenable Security Center comparison

Blast Security and Tenable are both solutions in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category. Blast Security is ranked #28 with an average rating of 10.0, while Tenable is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.1. Additionally, 100% of Blast Security users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Tenable users who would recommend it.
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100% willing to recommend
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96% willing to recommend
 

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Categories and Ranking

Blast Preemptive Cloud Defe...
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
28th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tenable Security Center
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
14th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (6th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (3rd)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2753940 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2753940
Product Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Blast improves cloud security through automation
Blast has helped us shift from constantly reacting to cloud security issues to actually preventing them before they happen. The automated guardrails give us consistency across our multi-cloud environment without slowing down our developers. What I appreciate most is that it strengthens our security posture while still letting our teams move fast.
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reviewer1534134 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
63%
Computer Software Company
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
Media Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise27
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Blast Preemptive Cloud Defense Platform?
The price scales with the size of your cloud environment, and for us the prevention value has more than justified the cost.
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What needs improvement with Blast Preemptive Cloud Defense Platform?
Blast could improve with deeper third-party integrations, more customizable dashboards, and expanded support for additional cloud services.
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What is your primary use case for Blast Preemptive Cloud Defense Platform?
Our primary use case for Blast is preventing cloud misconfigurations by enforcing automated guardrails in our cloud and CI/CD environments.
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What do you like most about Tenable SC?
The tool's dashboard and reporting capabilities match our company's needs since we are able to modify the basic view to create a new dashboard, and it works out very well for our needs.
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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.
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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...
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Tenable Security Center
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Also Known As

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Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter
 

Overview

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Blast Security

Get a risk-based view of your IT, security and compliance posture so you can quickly identify, investigate and prioritize your most critical assets and vulnerabilities.

Managed on-premises and powered by Nessus technology, the Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc) suite of products provides the industry’s most comprehensive vulnerability coverage with real-time continuous assessment of your network. It’s your complete end-to-end vulnerability management solution.

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Sample Customers

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IBM, Sempra Energy, Microsoft, Apple, Adidas, Union Pacific
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