We performed a comparison between Tenable.io Container Security and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Tenable.io Container Security excels at identifying vulnerabilities and resolving deployment misconfigurations. Prisma Cloud provides extensive visibility, robust management options, and a diverse set of security functionalities for multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. Tenable.io Container Security needs enhancements in auto-remediation, asset visibility, and compliance customization. Prisma Cloud requires improvements in dashboards, query building, correlation, and automation.
Service and Support: Customers have experienced difficulties with Tenable's customer service and support. Some customers said Palo Alto provided excellent, helpful, and responsive support. However, a few customers were dissatisfied with slow response times and a lack of satisfactory resolutions.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Tenable.io Container Security is considered straightforward with the support of helpful guidebooks. Reviewers had varied experiences when setting up Prisma Cloud. They said it can be easy or challenging depending on the organization's requirements. It typically takes users one or two weeks to deploy Tenable.io, while the deployment time for Prisma Cloud depends on the complexity of the environment.
Pricing: The cost of Tenable.io Container Security is determined by the number of pages in the application. Some users said that Prisma Cloud is reasonably and competitively priced, while others view it as expensive but essential for the benefits it offers.
ROI: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks has demonstrated its effectiveness in preventing breaches, enhancing risk understanding, and decreasing security expenses. Users offered limited feedback on Tenable's ROI.
Comparison Results: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is the preferred choice over Tenable.io Container Security. Prisma Cloud offers extensive visibility and management features. Users like Prisma Cloud's powerful anomaly detection, integration, and coverage of multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Prisma Cloud stands out due to its easy configuration, integration with DevSecOps pipelines, and comprehensive security capabilities.
"It helps to identify the misconfigurations by monitoring regularly which helps to secure the organization's cloud environment."
"Due to the maturity of most companies, security posture management is the most valuable feature."
"It is a good solution. Each team should utilize it. Every good organization is now moving towards or trying to be provider agnostic, so if you are using multiple providers, you should at least give Prisma Cloud a try."
"The container and serverless security is most valuable. It is quite a new technology for this region. Even though containers have been there for a long time, the adoption of containers is very minimal in this region. When it comes to using Kubernetes containers in a complex architecture, there is a lack of security in the market. People aren't aware of the security controls or the process for governance. Container security provided by Prisma Cloud is quite good at filling that gap."
"Prisma Cloud's inventory reporting is pretty good."
"The solution's dashboard looks very user-friendly."
"The visibility on alerts helps you investigate more easily and see details faster."
"Configuration monitoring and alerting is the most valuable feature; it happens at the cloud's speed, allowing our development team to respond quickly. If a configuration goes against our security best practices, we're alerted promptly and can act to resolve the issue. As cloud security staff, we're not staring at the cloud all the time, and we want to let the developers do their jobs so that our company is protected and work is proceeding within our security controls."
"Tenable.io detects misconfiguration when you deploy a Docker or Kubernetes container. It's much better to remedy these issues during deployment instead of waiting until the container is already in the production environment."
"It helps us secure our applications from the build phase and identify the weaknesses from scratch."
"The strong security provided by the product in the container environment is its most valuable feature."
"While Prisma provides a lot of visibility, it also creates a ton of work. Most customers that implement Prisma Cloud have thousands of alerts that are urgent."
"They need to improve the API gateway."
"Currently, custom reports are available, but I feel that those reports are targeting just the L1 or L2 engineers because they are very verbose. So, for every alert, there is a proper description, but as a security posture management portal, Prisma Cloud should give me a dashboard that I can present to my stakeholders, such as CSO, CRO, or CTO. It should be at a little bit higher level. They should definitely put effort into reporting because the reporting does not reflect the requirements of a dashboard for your stakeholders. There are a couple of things that are present on the portal, but we don't have the option to customize dashboards or widgets. There are a limited set of widgets, and those widgets don't add value from the perspective of a security team or any professional who is above L1 or L2 level. Because of this, the reach of Prisma Cloud in an organization or the access to Prisma Cloud will be limited only to L1 and L2 engineers. This is something that their development team should look into."
"There needs to be a mechanism that allows me to manually configure compliance more easily."
"When it comes to compliance, the issue is that when we are exporting the reports, there is only a single compliance option. If I need to report on multiple compliance requirements, that feature isn't available. For example, I made a single report for ISO 27000 but I can't correlate it with GDPR."
"The security automation capabilities are average."
"A better correlation between the multiple products Prisma Cloud contains would be crucial. It would reduce the time spent looking at reports and enable you to get all the actionable insights across products. I think that Palo Alto is working on it, but they need to work faster because it doesn't make sense to have all these products in a single pane of glass without any correlation between them."
"The IM security has room for improvement."
"The support is tricky to reach, so we would like better-oriented technical support enabled."
"The initial setup is highly complex."
"They need to work on auto-remediation so it's easier for the security team to act quickly when certain assets or resources are deployed. The latest version has a CIS benchmark that you need to meet for containers in the cloud, but more automation is needed."
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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Container Security with 44 reviews while Tenable.io Container Security is ranked 19th in Container Security with 3 reviews. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.2, while Tenable.io Container Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The magic happens with traffic passing through multiple zones and our data center, as we can quickly troubleshoot problems". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable.io Container Security writes "A great solution for identifying vulnerabilities, and it has helped us secure our organization". Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, Snyk and AWS Security Hub, whereas Tenable.io Container Security is most compared with Aqua Cloud Security Platform, Wiz, Sysdig Secure, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Tenable.io Container Security report.
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