Fortra Tripwire IP360 vs Tenable Security Center comparison

Fortra and Tenable are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Fortra is ranked #55, while Tenable is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.1. Fortra holds a 0.6% mindshare in VM, compared to Tenable’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 60% of Fortra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Tenable users who would recommend it.

Fortra Tripwire IP360

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Tenable Security Center and Fortra Tripwire IP360 compete in the realm of security management. Tenable has the upper hand in support and pricing satisfaction, while Fortra Tripwire IP360 stands out in feature robustness, offering significant value for its cost.

Features: Tenable Security Center is recognized for comprehensive vulnerability scanning, extensive integration capabilities, and robust network visibility. Fortra Tripwire IP360 provides precise threat detection, policy compliance enforcement, and detailed asset tracking.

Room for Improvement: Tenable could improve on providing more customizable reporting options, enhanced usability for new users, and better integration with non-standard systems. Fortra Tripwire IP360 may benefit from simplifying its user interface, offering more flexible deployment options, and reducing the complexity of its feature set for easier adaptation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tenable Security Center offers a straightforward deployment process and strong support services. Fortra Tripwire IP360 has a complex deployment model but compensates with knowledgeable customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Tenable Security Center presents a competitive pricing model with favorable ROI due to its inclusive scanning capabilities. Fortra Tripwire IP360, while having higher initial costs, justifies these with enhanced features offering substantial long-term ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Fortra Tripwire IP360 vs. Tenable Security Center Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Fortra Tripwire IP360

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

55th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

4.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tenable Security Center

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (14th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Fortra Tripwire IP360 is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Security Center is 3.1%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tenable Security Center	3.1%
Fortra Tripwire IP360	0.6%
Other	96.3%

Vulnerability Management

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Corey Cole

Service Coordinator - Technology Security at a government with 10,001+ employees

The solution helps users to manage their entire IP range, but it's unreliable and very expensive to maintain

Only the administrator was using the product. He used it to read reports as part of our compliance programs. It wasn't heavily used by a lot of users. The tool comes in at a large scale, and we tried to scale it down. The scaling did not apply to us. It was neither difficult nor easy. I rate the scalability a five out of ten. We had some challenges while scaling it down. It could do 10,000 devices, and we wanted to use it for ten devices. The process was difficult and expensive. We did not need the product anymore.

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reviewer1534134

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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Tripwire IP360 helps me to discover most of the vulnerabilities, and I like the way that it prioritizes these vulnerabilities, as it allows me to focus on the most important ones first and then follow up with the rest."

"The company probably chose this solution because they thought that they would be getting the best bang for their buck."

"Tripwire IP360 is a very stable solution."

"Tripwire is one of the most mature in terms of companies, suites, support, everything, much more than any other product."

"It has enhanced the security program by ensuring that all external-facing systems are scanned on a routine basis."

"It's become the pinnacle point for anything that enters the network or anything that's passing through to production to first be affected by IP360, hardened, and up to standard. For our integrity management, one was deployed in the bank about two years ago and that's still going to expand the usage and the product itself. That will go hand in hand with training and expanding the product as for where it's deployed."

"This product detects vulnerabilities which exist in the environment, and provides enough information that allows for remediation, thereby securing the environment."

"We could manage our entire IP range with the solution."

"The initial setup process is simple."

"This solution has given us visibility of the vulnerability in our network and shows what needs to be done to negate the vulnerabilities by providing links to the solution for those issues, so we are now able to manage our vulnerabilities better by identifying them, prioritizing them, and then negating them, which has improved our security posture."

"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."

"The scans are the most valuable aspect of this solution."

"The reporting vulnerability is very helpful when you link it with the people who close it with the admin and support team, giving them the criticality to find how to close each item, and it's up to date with all the vulnerabilities on the market thanks to prompt updates from the cloud."

"This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives."

"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."

"Their overall cost of service is pretty good."

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Cons

"We would like to have better reporting capabilities and for them to be more granular."

"The reporting functions can use improvement."

"I am not very impressed by the technical support."

"If you are looking for better reporting capabilities and vulnerability tracking over time for remediation purposes, then this is not the best solution."

"I am not very impressed by the technical support."

"For IP360, unfortunately, scans for certain vulnerabilities often cause issues, as they are mainly false positive."

"We need to dedicate time and resources to keep it running."

"The reporting functions can use improvement. There is room for growth because reporting functions differ a lot depending on what you're going to output. It depends on whether it's for technical or senior management and how it's interpreted. There could be growth within the reporting functionality side."

"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."

"A good plugin editor would be a good additional option for the Security Center."

"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 dashboard templates are limited."

"The solution should include compliance-based scanning."

"Tenable SC could be improved with additional connectivity to external company postures and the capability of managing and sustaining agents in the systems directly without additional platforms in the middle."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product was expensive for us."

"I believe the price compares well within the market."

"I use a local license to perform penetration testing and I'm pretty happy with everything when it comes to pricing and licensing."

"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."

"I would rate the pricing a nine out of ten, where ten is expensive. It is the most expensive tool my company is using."

"It is slightly more expensive than other solutions in the same sphere."

"Costing is pretty reasonable compared to the competition."

"We're happy with the licensing cost and find it affordable."

"Tenable is open-source."

"Tenable SC is priced per asset, with the basic solution starting around US$12,000 for 500 assets."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

Retailer

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	27

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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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Also Known As

IP360

Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter

Overview

Tripwire IP360 is a powerful vulnerability management solution that identifies and prioritizes network vulnerabilities for remediation. It is highly effective in scanning devices and applications, improving security posture, ensuring compliance, and managing risks.

Users value its detailed reporting, user-friendly interface, and seamless integration with other security tools for efficient security management.

Fortra

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.

Tenable

Sample Customers

1. Aetna 2. Accenture 3. Adidas 4. AIG 5. Airbus 6. Akamai 7. Amazon 8. American Express 9. Aon 10. Apple 11. ATT 12. Autodesk 13. Bank of America 14. Barclays 15. Bayer 16. Bechtel 17. BlackRock 18. Boeing 19. BNP Paribas 20. Cisco 21. CocaCola 22. Comcast 23. Dell 24. Deutsche Bank 25. eBay 26. ExxonMobil 27. FedEx 28. Ford 29. General Electric 30. Google 31. HP 32. IBM

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

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