RiskIQ Illuminate vs Tenable Security Center comparison

The compared RiskIQ and Tenable solutions aren't in the same category. RiskIQ is ranked #30 in ASM , and holds a 1.0% mindshare in the category. Tenable is ranked #3 in RBVM , with an average rating of 9.1, and holds a 8.9% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Tenable users are willing to recommend the solution.

RiskIQ Illuminate

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0% willing to recommend

Tenable Security Center

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3,258 Comparison Views

96% willing to recommend

RiskIQ Illuminate

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Executive Summary

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Categories and Ranking

RiskIQ Illuminate

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Attack Surface Management (ASM) (30th)

Tenable Security Center

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (14th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. RiskIQ Illuminate is designed for Attack Surface Management (ASM) and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
Tenable Security Center, on the other hand, focuses on Risk-Based Vulnerability Management, holds 8.9% mindshare, down 16.5% since last year.

Attack Surface Management (ASM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
RiskIQ Illuminate	1.0%
CrowdStrike Falcon	7.2%
Darktrace	4.9%
Other	86.9%

Attack Surface Management (ASM)

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tenable Security Center	8.9%
Qualys VMDR	12.1%
Rapid7 InsightVM	10.5%
Other	68.5%

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

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SimonClark

Cyber Security Advisor - Director at Fort Net UK

Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well

A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful. This could be useful for insurance companies offering cyber insurance to enterprise customers, providing the insurer with a valuable way to unobtrusively, quickly, and frequently assess their customers and apply appropriate premiums for the level of risk. This would also be useful for enterprises. They could, for example, assess companies prior to a merger or acquisition. What would also be useful for any enterprise would be if their supply chain has some kind of direct digital access to parts of their network.

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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

"The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."

"Attack Surface Management provided our customers with visibility on everything in their network and domains - anything publicly-facing on the internet - and shows where they have potential vulnerabilities."

"Tenable Security Center scans networks and gives reports."

"This solution has a much lower rate of false positives compared to competing products."

"The customer service and support team at Tenable were extremely helpful."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the dashboards and speed of the test, and Tenable.sc is user-friendly."

"Tenable Security Center's centralized platform helped with risk assessment and management across our IT environments, covering the patching process and providing detailed reports that significantly supported our reporting and audits and helped us close audit issues safely and successfully."

"We really love the Security Center dashboard. It basically performs vulnerability scanning and then outputs a vulnerability data."

"Tenable SC is good for reporting and alerting. The filtering feature is also very valuable. Its integration with multiple vendors is quite good. It can be integrated with SIEM solutions and PAM solutions such as Thycotic, which is very helpful."

"The predictive prioritization features are pretty good. They do a lot of research and we trust the research that they do internally. They have knowledge of what's going on with many companies, where we only get a view into what's going on here. So the ability to get best practices out of them as part of this solution, is valuable to us."

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Cons

"The product scales from small to enormous, however, the pricing is not suitable for very small companies."

"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."

"The reporting needs a lot of work on the template."

"The solution's user interface has some issues."

"In terms of the configuration of the reports, there's some level of flexibility that we are not able to achieve."

"Tenable has some problems with agents going offline during scanning and lag between agents and the security center."

"The solution needs to improve its support. I would like to see a bird's eye view of my network architecture. I would also like to see the continuous view feature in the tool."

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

"The solution should include compliance-based scanning."

"Tenable has some problems with agents going offline during scanning and lag between agents and the security center."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The pricing depends upon the number of IPs."

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

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

"Costing is pretty reasonable compared to the competition."

"For 500 users the licensing fee is roughly $100,000."

"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."

"My company needs to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs. The pricing of the solution falls in the mid-range level, so it is not too expensive"

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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

RiskIQ Digital Threat Management

Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter

Overview

Threats are as vast as the internet. Defending your attack surface is a challenge of continuous change and global scale. RiskIQ Illuminate Internet Intelligence shows cyber threats relevant to your critical assets through connected digital relationships. It is the only security intelligence solution with tailored attack surface intelligence to uncover exposures, risks, and threats against your unique digital footprint, pinpointing what’s relevant to you—all in one place.

RiskIQ

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

DocuSign, Outbrain, The Economist Group, Rackspace, The Citizen Lab

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

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