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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) (27th)
Tenable Vulnerability Manag...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (6th), 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 0.6% compared to last year.
Tenable Vulnerability Management, on the other hand, focuses on Vulnerability Management, holds 5.9% mindshare, down 9.8% since last year.
Attack Surface Management (ASM)
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.
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 solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
"Tenable is user-friendly and excels in reporting."
"It is pretty stable. I would rate it nine or maybe ten."
"A new user can easily understand the workflow, even if they are creating users for other divisions and the user is a beginner."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The ease of use in terms of scanning assets is valuable."
"I would rate Tenable's dashboards and reporting capabilities for illustrating security posture a nine out of ten, with ten being the best."
"It has greatly impacted us by providing asset visibility."
"Tenable.io, in particular, is quite a powerful product. It looks at your traditional environment, which is pretty much anything that is on-premises, and it also goes a step ahead and covers your modern assets, which is anything that is currently sitting in the cloud. You get complete visibility of your entire environment and tech operation. The ability to give you visibility across the entire tech surface is one of the biggest advantages that Tenable.io has."
 

Cons

"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
"The solution seems to focus too much on enterprises, and they really need a product that works for SMBs."
"It would be helpful if Tenable could be more clear with regard to everything the solution can and cannot do with the particular license that you have."
"Tenable.io Vulnerability Management could be improved with an increased number of dashboards and MSSP integration."
"The shortcoming of the solution that needs improvement is related to its capability to do vulnerability assessments on applications."
"I'm not satisfied with the reporting structure."
"It can have more integration."
"Technical support from Tenable is rated six out of ten. It needs improvement in response time and addressing feature requests promptly."
"The product is a bit expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There are additional features that can be licensed for an additional cost."
"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."
"I would rate the pricing a five out of ten. It is in the middle."
"Yearly payments are to be made toward the licensing cost of the product. It is neither a cheap nor an expensive product."
"The solution is not too expensive."
"Tenable.io Vulnerability Management's pricing solution model isn't great."
"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

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Real Estate/Law Firm
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Educational Organization
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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 would suggest HP WebInspect as a better option than Tenable.io. My current client doesn't have access to it. However, from my experience, HPE WebInspect provides more extensive reports and detail...
 

Also Known As

RiskIQ Digital Threat Management
Tenable.io
 

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Sample Customers

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