Fortra Tripwire IP360 vs Tenable Security Center comparison

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Fortra and Tenable are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Fortra is ranked #58, while Tenable is ranked #18 with an average rating of 9.0. Fortra holds a 0.7% mindshare in VM, compared to Tenable’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 60% of Fortra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Tenable users who would recommend it.

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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.

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Qualys TotalCloud

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Qualys TotalCloud is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortra Tripwire IP360 is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Security Center is 2.4%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Qualys TotalCloud	1.2%
Tenable Security Center	2.4%
Fortra Tripwire IP360	0.7%
Other	95.7%

Vulnerability Management

Featured Reviews

reviewer2859021

Sr Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Risk-based triage has transformed container security and now prioritizes high-impact threats

The best features Qualys TotalCloud offers currently include managing cloud infrastructure and container security while facing major challenges such as alert fatigue. Traditional vulnerability scanners flag hundreds of CVEs on short-lived Kubernetes containers, some of which have no internet exposure or are gone before we can even triage them. I leverage Qualys TotalCloud to move beyond static CVSS. I use it to implement runtime exposure, correlation risk reprioritization, and shift-left integration. This notifies developers to fix a base image upstream rather than patching live ephemeral instances. In my work with cloud and container security, the biggest operational hurdle was alert fatigue. I use Qualys to shift left from static CVSS severity to context-aware risk prioritization. I correlated raw vulnerability data with real-time risk factors such as public network exposure, active runtime execution, or overly permissive IAM roles. This allows us to immediately drop the priority of isolated containers and escalate lower-severity CVEs that sit on an exposed, high-risk path. We can map these findings directly back to our CI/CD pipelines so developers can patch the root base images upstream. We have drastically cut down the signal-to-noise ratio, saved a lot of manual hours doing triage work, and ensured engineering effort goes directly towards high-impact risk reduction.

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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

"Qualys TotalCloud has significantly reduced our workload in terms of managing risks, helping us to be more efficient and save substantial resources."

"One of the features I appreciate is the ability to generate daily reports without relying on anyone else."

"Qualys TotalCloud has great accuracy and reliability, as it is a very complete program with tools that help experts understand the vulnerabilities of today."

"Once you have your vulnerabilities fixed and your patches pushed out using Qualys TotalCloud, then you are able to eliminate threats and cyber risk."

"I appreciate Qualys TotalCloud's ability to onboard any type of device with ease, including containers."

"One of Qualys' best features is its categorization, which allows us to see the types of assets, their security postures, and the AI-powered version of the tool."

"I found the initial setup user-friendly."

"Qualys TotalCloud's most valuable features are its security capabilities that help identify and mitigate risk factors."

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

"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."

"Tripwire IP360 is a very stable solution."

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

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

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

"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 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."

"Support is knowledgeable."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the vulnerability assessment."

"The tool gives us fewer false positives. Compared to its competitors, the solution’s reports are more accurate."

"The product is our second solution, and we are happy that it meets our requirements."

"I find Tenable SC to be a very scalable product."

"The most valuable features of Tenable SC are scanning, reporting, dashboards, and automation."

"It's a very useful tool."

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Cons

"The main area needing improvement is integration. Although the team is strengthening TotalCloud, integration can be enhanced with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, and other sources."

"Qualys TotalCloud needs to enhance its scanning capabilities in the IP domain, as it currently lacks the functionality to resolve IPs to their corresponding domain names."

"TotalCloud could improve the classification of vulnerabilities. Specifically, it could enhance the categorization of what aspects fall under patches resolved by OS or software updates and what pertains to configuration adjustments."

"I sometimes have difficulty detecting or uninstalling certain versions of applications, which I have to do manually."

"Areas that need improvement in every solution include the remediation part. The remediation steps should be simple enough for everyone to understand."

"I would like the ability to disable certain default built-in policies as they can be misleading when creating dashboards. That is the top one."

"We encountered challenges identifying the correct resource category for certain items, such as those in containers or storage."

"Some major banks and insurance companies require an on-premises solution for comprehensive vulnerability management, which TotalCloud does not offer."

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"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 am not very impressed by the technical support."

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

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

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

"The reporting functions can use improvement."

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

"It's good at creating information, it's good creating dashboards, it's good at creating reports, but if you want to take that reporting metadata and put it into another tool, that is a little bit lacking."

"I'm having some issues with that and it's holding things up."

"As it is now, integration with new tools has to be developed specifically, so it's not easy."

"In the next release, we would like to see the inclusion of external IPs and simplified reporting that's easier to deal with."

"We did conduct a long implementation which relates to what I think can be improved about Tenable Security Center."

"The licensing is a little involved from both sides. That may be due to our specific implementation of it because we are a defense contractor."

"The reporting side can be improved. The dashboards are nice, but exporting things out for reports for management was a little tough."

"It's important for Tenable to catch up on testing capabilities that are present in solutions like Qualys."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am not sure about the pricing. From what I understand, it is a bit on the higher side, but I do not have the exact numbers."

"As a middle management member, I do not have direct pricing knowledge, but based on the knowledge from our meetings, its pricing is competitive."

"It isn't cheap, but it's reasonable. It helps us to manage things with very few resources."

"The pricing is comparable. It is built into our other product, so I cannot piecemeal it. It is a part of our subscription."

"Qualys TotalCloud offers competitive pricing given its comprehensive suite of features, including integration, assessment, remediation, and detection capabilities, all within a single platform."

"Although Qualys TotalCloud is relatively expensive due to its unique automation features, its cost-effectiveness is rated an eight out of ten, with ten being the most costly."

"Qualys TotalCloud offers cost-effective licensing flexibility."

"The pricing for TotalCloud is attractive and competitive in the market. Given the features, especially the dashboard, I have no concerns regarding pricing."

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

"The product was expensive for us."

"Though reasonable, the main competitor of Tenable SC, Rapid7, offers a more aggressive and better priced product."

"This solution's price is quite high."

"It is a bit expensive. Everything is included in the license."

"The price can start at €10,000 ($13,000 USD) for between 500 and 1,000 assets, and the price can climb into the millions as more assets are added."

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

"The pricing is more than Nexpose."

"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 rate the solution's price as seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The tool is quite expensive."

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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider

18%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Small Business

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Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	38

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Small Business	2
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Large Enterprise	4

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Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	27

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys TotalCloud?

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I am unsure about how Qualys TotalCloud can be improved. I do not have anything else to add about the needed improvem...

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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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Also Known As

Qualys TotalCloud with FlexScan

IP360

Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter

Overview

Qualys TotalCloud enhances security posture across cloud environments with continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and risk visualization, ensuring efficient threat assessment and automated remediation for improved cyber risk reduction.

Qualys TotalCloud offers a robust suite of security tools essential for organizations managing multi-cloud infrastructures. By integrating cloud accounts and automating workflows, it supports AWS, Azure, and GCP, offering comprehensive vulnerability management and zero-day detection. The platform's user-friendly design, combined with its extensive risk management and unified threat assessment capabilities, enables organizations to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities effectively. TruRisk Insights provides clear insights on cyber risks, while the automation options streamline patch management and scanning processes. API integration across IaaS and SaaS environments further enhances resource allocation efficiency and saves time, addressing misconfigurations across cloud environments.

What are the most important features of Qualys TotalCloud?

Accurate Vulnerability Reports: Delivers precise and actionable insights for risk mitigation.
Zero-Day Detection: Identifies and addresses zero-day vulnerabilities proactively.
Unified Threat Assessment: Offers comprehensive evaluation of threats across the environment.
Extensive Risk Management: Manages risks effectively with advanced insights and prioritization.
Continuous Monitoring: Provides non-stop surveillance for vulnerabilities and threats.
Cloud-Native Automation: Streamlines processes and reduces manual efforts using automation.
FlexScan for Internet-Facing VMs: Scans external VMs efficiently to detect vulnerabilities.
Dashboard Risk Visualization: Clear visualization helps prioritize vulnerabilities.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Improved Security Posture: Enhances threat detection and response across clouds.
Time Savings: Automation reduces time spent on manual vulnerability management.
Resource Efficiency: Better allocation of resources through streamlined workflows.
Enhanced Risk Prioritization: Focus on critical vulnerabilities for effective mitigation.
Integrated Cloud Accounts: Facilitates seamless cloud management and security.

Qualys TotalCloud is deployed in sectors needing rigorous vulnerability management, such as finance and healthcare. Companies utilize it to secure multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP, focus on compliance, and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines to detect and remedy threats pre-deployment.

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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

Tenable Security Center offers vulnerability scanning, reporting, and customizable dashboards, aiding in security posture enhancement through Asset Discovery and Vulnerability Priority Rating. Its user-friendly interface and third-party integration support provide real-time insights and risk assessment.

Tenable Security Center efficiently manages vulnerabilities, offering valuable analytics, risk prioritization, and real-time insights. It supports automated updates, false-positive reduction, and compliance reporting. Users benefit from its asset discovery capabilities and its integrations with third-party tools. However, there's room for improvement in reporting customization, integration with tools like Jira, and the accuracy and speed of vulnerability scanning. The system could enhance its dynamic data displays, language support, and offer more pricing flexibility. While valued for scanning servers, workstations, and IoT devices, the setup complexity and policy modification challenges are noted.

What are the key features?

Vulnerability Scanning: Identifies and prioritizes security issues across environments.
Comprehensive Reporting: Detailed insights for informed decision-making and compliance.
Customizable Dashboards: Tailor the interface to track and manage risks effectively.
Asset Discovery: Identifies network devices to enhance security posture.
Vulnerability Priority Rating: Helps in prioritizing actions based on risk levels.

What benefits should reviews highlight?

Risk Assessment: Provides real-time insights to prioritize security initiatives.
Compliance: Assists in meeting standards like NIST and CIS.
Integration: Seamless operation across IT processes for enhanced efficiency.
Patch Management: Ensures timely updates to reduce vulnerabilities.

Organizations in sectors like IT, finance, and healthcare implement Tenable Security Center for vulnerability management across internal and cloud networks. It facilitates compliance with industry standards and aids IT teams in conducting network-wide assessments, streamlining patch management, and strengthening overall security.

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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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