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We performed a comparison between Symantec Cloud Workload Protection and Tenable Cloud Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The most valuable features in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection are endpoint protection and active directory features. The active directory features in the product are very good, and in terms of security, the most valuable feature in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is threat defense or threat protection.""It will read various logs, diagnose what is wrong, and then alert you."

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"Ermetic can provide super visibility for our cloud environment (we are using AWS).""The key benefit lies in having the largest and most up-to-date database. When it comes to using any Tenable product, it excels in finding vulnerabilities and providing analytics.""The tool alerts us on depreciating performance or deficiencies of our web application. It helps us react on time.""The solution’s vulnerability management feature has helped us identify and mitigate risks well.""If you have multi-cloud tenancy using AWS and Azure, you can have a single dashboard where you can onboard all the cloud infrastructure and have visibility into it.""The product's visibility and remediation work fine for me."

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Cons
"In the future, we may need to use features that are only available in one of the competing products.""One area for improvement in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is integration. Other features that could be improved are defense control and encryption, particularly in the USB. For example, users should be able to control the USB and have the capability of blocking and allowing USB reading and writing. Having a USB encryption feature in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection would also be very useful."

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"Ermetic needs to improve its security scanning. I would like to see more dynamic graphical forms.""The product must provide more features.""If Tenable Cloud Security offers a complete Cnapp solution with CWP, CIEM, and Waap security, it will be able to compete with other competitors.""I do think there might be room for more integrations. This could allow for further customization and flexibility, essentially offering different functionality options to accommodate various budgets.""There is a need for the support team to improve their response time since it is one of the areas where the product's technical team has certain shortcomings.""I didn't find anything that wasn't useful or needed to be added."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing cost for Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is paid yearly."
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  • "The tool's pricing is fair."
  • "There is a need to opt for a subscription-based pricing model to use Tenable Cloud Security. I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable features in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection are endpoint protection and active directory features. The active directory features in the product are very good, and in terms of… more »
    Top Answer:One area for improvement in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is integration. Other features that could be improved are defense control and encryption, particularly in the USB. For example, users… more »
    Top Answer:In our company, we installed Symantec Cloud Workload Protection for building protection and security on hybrid cloud, but it's just on a test environment, and not on a production environment. We use… more »
    Top Answer:The solution’s vulnerability management feature has helped us identify and mitigate risks well.
    Top Answer:The product must provide more features. It must integrate with AI. The reporting features are bad. The reports do not have detailed information. We cannot do CI/CD with the tool.
    Top Answer:The use cases attached to Tenable Cloud Security include compliance verifications for the cloud environment.
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    Overview

    Symantec Cloud Workload Protection automates security for public cloud workloads, enabling business agility, risk reduction, and cost savings for organizations, while easing DevOps and administrative burdens. Rapid discovery, visibility, and elastic protection of AWS and Azure workloads enable automated security policy enforcement to protect applications from unknown exploits.

    Take control of your cloud security program with Tenable Cloud Security (formerly Tenable.cs) low-impact cloud agentless scanning, automated threat detection and risk prioritization. Developed by the leader in vulnerability management, Tenable Cloud Security enables security teams to continuously assess the security posture of cloud environments, offering full visibility across multi-cloud environments and helping you prioritize efforts based on business risk.

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    Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
    April 2024
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    Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is ranked 23rd in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 2 reviews while Tenable Cloud Security is ranked 16th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 6 reviews. Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is rated 8.0, while Tenable Cloud Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Symantec Cloud Workload Protection writes "Protects cloud-based workloads with antivirus and traffic analysis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Cloud Security writes "Provides excellent features and helps identify and mitigate risks". Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is most compared with AWS GuardDuty, whereas Tenable Cloud Security is most compared with Wiz, Orca Security, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Amazon Inspector and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

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