We performed a comparison between RiskIQ Illuminate and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Mandiant, Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro and others in Attack Surface Management (ASM)."The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
"The vulnerability scanner is the most valuable feature."
"It allows me to prioritize efforts and utilize effective technical resources."
"Makes ransomware checking and OS auditing and implementation relatively easy."
"User friendly and good dashboards."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the self-updating engine."
"The reports are pretty nice and easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the GUI and user-friendliness. Additionally, the environment is easy to work with."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is vulnerability detection."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
"The accuracy of the vulnerability assessment is not up to par yet, as false alarms and false positives occur often."
"Nessus' reporting could be more user-friendly."
"I would like to have a management option after the network scanning."
"One area with room for improvement is instead of there just being a PDF format for output, I'd like the option of an Excel spreadsheet, whereby I could better track remediation efforts and provide reporting off of that."
"We feel the solution's technical support to be very bad."
"I would like to see more on the automation side."
"Tenable Nessus could improve the price."
"It would be nice for the professional module to include some of the reports available in the expert module."
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RiskIQ Illuminate is ranked 13th in Attack Surface Management (ASM) while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. RiskIQ Illuminate is rated 0.0, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of RiskIQ Illuminate writes "Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". RiskIQ Illuminate is most compared with Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, ZeroFOX and Recorded Future, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Pentera.
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