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RiskIQ Illuminate vs Tenable Vulnerability Management comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

RiskIQ Illuminate
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Attack Surface Management (ASM) (36th)
Tenable Vulnerability Manag...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (6th), Patch Management (11th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (2nd)
 

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 0.2%, down 0.4% compared to last year.
Tenable Vulnerability Management, on the other hand, focuses on Vulnerability Management, holds 4.6% mindshare, down 8.5% since last year.
Attack Surface Management (ASM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
RiskIQ Illuminate0.2%
CrowdStrike Falcon11.4%
Darktrace7.7%
Other80.7%
Attack Surface Management (ASM)
Vulnerability Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Tenable Vulnerability Management4.6%
Wiz10.3%
Tenable Nessus7.7%
Other77.4%
Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

SimonClark - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Chethan Gowda - PeerSpot reviewer
Have maintained accurate vulnerability scans and gained actionable remediation insights across thousands of servers
Tenable Vulnerability Management agents are very lightweight, and the results we get are very accurate. The solutions they provide to us, assuming if one vulnerability exists, there will be a solution. The resolution they give us in wording will be the best solution. The exploit rates and the reports we get provide a lot of information, making it very easy for us to verify.The main benefit of integration with Tenable Vulnerability Management is that there will be no lack of missing vulnerabilities when it comes to the patching environment. That is one of the key aspects of why we have integrated Tenable to our patching tools. It has a vast capacity of pushing the data to our tools due to its capability and compatibility. That is also one of the reasons why we are using Tenable Vulnerability Management.

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."
"The solution's most valuable feature is providing a single pane of visibility on all the infrastructure and its status."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"They are on a good trajectory as a company and investing in R&D in the right ways."
"The solution is very simple to use."
"There is no burden of updating or upgrading this solution."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"A new user can easily understand the workflow, even if they are creating users for other divisions and the user is a beginner."
"The solution is quite friendly."
 

Cons

"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
"The only drawback of the solution is that it is expensive."
"Users get confused between VPR and CVSS ratings."
"Technical support from Tenable is rated six out of ten. It needs improvement in response time and addressing feature requests promptly."
"I'd like to see them improve their support."
"More flexibility is required compared to other solutions."
"The UI has room for improvement."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"They've been able to think about everything in terms of where the world is going and the type of assets that you've got. They've everything sorted out in that aspect, but you have to pay for most of the other components that they've got to give you complete visibility across your tech surface. If it already had those capabilities in-built, without having to add them on to take advantage of them, it would be a very compelling value proposition."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I would rate the pricing a five out of ten. It is in the middle."
"The tool is reasonably priced."
"Yearly payments are to be made toward the licensing cost of the product. It is neither a cheap nor an expensive product."
"Tenable.io is not known for being a cheap product."
"A yearly payment has to be made toward the solution's licensing costs."
"Compared to other VM solutions, Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is expensive."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise21
 

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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 ...
 

Also Known As

RiskIQ Digital Threat Management
Tenable.io
 

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Sample Customers

DocuSign, Outbrain, The Economist Group, Rackspace, The Citizen Lab
Global Payments AU/NZ
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