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IONIX vs Tenable Vulnerability Management comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

IONIX
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Attack Surface Management (ASM) (7th), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (4th)
Tenable Vulnerability Manag...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (6th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. IONIX is designed for Attack Surface Management (ASM) and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, up 0.5% compared to last year.
Tenable Vulnerability Management, on the other hand, focuses on Vulnerability Management, holds 5.4% mindshare, down 9.6% since last year.
Attack Surface Management (ASM)
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

RB
Is user-friendly, quick to install, and provides great visibility into our assets
IONIX helps us with KPIs by identifying our assets and locating publicly accessible vulnerabilities within those assets. Additionally, it provides a severity rating for each vulnerability. The tracking is important because it ensures we are not replicating efforts. IONIX prioritizes bug fixes based on severity using a scale of one to ten. This ensures that critical and high-priority issues are addressed immediately. IONIX helps us identify our most critical assets, the ones that have the biggest impact on our risk exposure. It can also pinpoint any of these assets that are externally facing, meaning accessible to anyone on the internet. This is extremely valuable because having critical assets exposed to the public internet significantly increases the risk of attack. By identifying these exposed assets and highlighting their vulnerabilities, IONIX provides a crucial service. IONIX excels at identifying risks in third-party digital supply chains. This makes it easy to leverage those KPIs and demonstrate a potential correlation between security and search engine optimization to our marketing team, thereby getting them involved. Fortunately, I haven't had to discuss any false positives. The majority of our alerts, particularly the medium-severity ones, seem to be triggered by hyperlinks to third-party websites. We have a significant number of these alerts, and I'm scheduled to meet with the marketing department to address them. The IONIX user interface is truly user-friendly. Setting up a link, and credentials, and navigating the platform was incredibly fast and required no prior configuration. Within five minutes, I was up and running, able to explore a report and initiate action from our infrastructure team. It's a remarkably fast and smooth experience. Non-technical people can see the evidence and take action based on their one-sentence actionable items. IONIX integrates with our SOC tools to automate tasks. We plan to further leverage IONIX by integrating our AWS public-facing assets and Jira ticketing system. This will allow for automated project creation for our infrastructure team. I realized the value of IONIX within the first five minutes. It identified two critical vulnerabilities that we were then able to address. The Active Protection feature automatically detects exploitable vulnerabilities in our system and takes control of them, without requiring manual intervention from us. IONIX can potentially take control of an asset before an attacker does. This would prevent the attacker from gaining access. IONIX would notify us of the issue and help us mitigate it before returning control of the asset. Ultimately, it's far better to have a trusted security provider like IONIX manage our assets than a malicious actor. The Active Protection feature is important to us for those reasons. IONIX helps us reduce our mean time to remediation by providing clear and concise information. This allows our marketing team to address certain situations without requiring IT intervention. I've accessed the IONIX threat exposure radar three times since its implementation, and thankfully, there haven't been any threats detected on any of those occasions.
Mani Bommisetty - PeerSpot reviewer
Streamlines vulnerability management with excellent reporting and potential AI integration
Tenable is user-friendly and excels in reporting. It allows me to easily fetch and schedule reports. The software's discovery feature aids in strengthening our security posture. The single-sensor installation process on various operating systems is smooth, unlike Rapid7, which requires different versions for separate systems. Furthermore, Tenable enables vulnerability management through potential AI integration that consolidates efforts and resolves multiple vulnerabilities simultaneously.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of IONIX is the effortless setup."
"IONIX enables us to manage all our assets from one platform. We can see all the assets, login pages, web services, etc., from one place. It automatically scans everything so we can find new information about our organization. We don't need to add each asset or interface manually."
"The portal is an excellent resource, offering valuable insights in a clear and actionable format. It provides a wealth of information, presented in a way that's easy to understand and use. This aligns perfectly with our key focus when working with IONIX: ensuring the data they deliver is highly actionable."
"My favorite is the dark web association that it does. It basically takes things that are unknown to you and then also runs those URLs through the dark web to see if there are potentially leaked credentials unknown to you. It links both of those together and gives you that on a report. You can identify potentially compromised credentials that were previously unknown to you, and you can do something about them. It is a cool feature."
"We're constantly surprised by how good IONIX is at detecting timely vulnerabilities."
"The integration was easy."
"Tenable Vulnerability Management is the backbone of our vulnerability management and has affected my organization positively."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution can integrate with third parties and meets standard compliance."
"The stability is commendable, and I would rate Tenable ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature for me is container scanning because I am interested in CICD security."
"Tenable is user-friendly and excels in reporting."
"The tool has an easy-to-use interface."
 

Cons

"There are a couple of opportunities for them under integrations. They only have two SIEMs. They do not have our current SIEM in there. It would be nice to have our current SIEM in there, which is Hunter's AI."
"Integrating on-premise Jira with IONIX to track changes and discussions would be highly beneficial for us in the future."
"IONIX can offer additional services to detect any potential bridging of very sensitive internal resources to the external side."
"Our team is always looking for ways to improve the product. Although we understand we are not the only client, the company has been very receptive to our suggestions."
"The integration and mechanisms for scanning things after we fix them could be simpler. IONIX isn't an easy product to use, but it's one of the best solutions once you learn how to work with it."
"It would be extremely beneficial if IONIX could integrate with popular SaaS services like Salesforce, Box, Zoom, or NetSuite."
"I don't recommend Tenable.io Vulnerability Management for web scanning"
"The interface could be improved; right now it's running on two interfaces simultaneously."
"The pricing of the solution could be more reasonable."
"The only drawback of the solution is that it is expensive."
"More flexibility is required compared to other solutions."
"The solution must provide penetration testing."
"t needs additional reporting and intelligence features, as well as enhancements in AI-driven detection, which is still in its early stages."
"The reporting was never great in Tenable Vulnerability Management, so, in my company, we imported all the data into Ivanti RiskSense to start using it for reporting."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Since we were an early adopter of IONIX, I believe we have a very favorable pricing model."
"Its pricing is fair."
"The solution's pricing is reasonable and at par with the rest of the industry."
"The pricing is good."
"The cost is determined by the number of endpoints, which is approximately one dollar per endpoint."
"The total cost we pay for this solution is over 45K. This is for a large education organization."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high price, I rate the pricing an eight. So, it is a pretty expensive solution."
"Tenable.io Vulnerability Management's pricing solution model isn't great."
"There are additional features that can be licensed for an additional cost."
"Yearly payments are to be made toward the licensing cost of the product. It is neither a cheap nor an expensive product."
"Compared to other VM solutions, Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is expensive."
"Tenable charges around $40 per device."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Insurance Company
12%
Retailer
11%
University
10%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IONIX?
The most valuable feature of IONIX is the effortless setup.
What needs improvement with IONIX?
I don't have anything that I don't like, but there is a feature that IONIX can also consider. We're a heavy user of IONIX services and have a very, very good partnership. However, IONIX only looks ...
What is your primary use case for IONIX?
We use IONIX to identify and monitor any vulnerabilities or issues within the attack surface. It is also used to validate the remediation actions.
What's the difference between Tenable Nessus and Tenable.io Vulnerability Management?
Tenable Nessus is a vulnerability assessment solution that is both easy to deploy and easy to manage. The design of the program is such that if a company should desire to handle the installation t...
What needs improvement with Tenable.io Vulnerability Management?
I don't think I have any additional features to add for improvement, as Tenable Vulnerability Management does a pretty good job of what it does. My pain points would have been on the internal side ...
 

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Sample Customers

Warner Music Group, Lexmark, Infosys, The Telegraph, Grand Canyon Education, E.ON
Global Payments AU/NZ
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