"The vulnerability scanning is the most important aspect of the solution for us."
"The most valuable feature for me is container scanning because I am interested in CICD security."
"They are on a good trajectory as a company and investing in R&D in the right ways."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It is very stable, and it is updated periodically by adding new vulnerabilities."
"The solution can integrate with third parties and meets standard compliance."
"Scanners and reports using CIS templates ("de-facto" standard, easy to fix and to locate correction tips at documentation), tests against cloud providers, database profiles, several types of telecom devices, and others highly customizable scans."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to understand."
"The solution is great for scanning servers."
"The automatic scanner and scheduler are pretty cool."
"The solution is the most dynamic one I have seen thus far."
"The features of Tenable Nessus that I have found most valuable are its reliability and its ability to collate a dependable output, where we are able to get the same vulnerability when we test manually. The output is quite reliable."
"We have done code scanning for a long period because as a company, we do DevOps as part of our development life cycle."
"With the Tenable Nessus enterprise edition, you have unlimited licenses to scan the device."
"An area of improvement for this solution is being able to customize the dashboard. For example, the dashboard does not allow us to view a previous months vulnerability results alongside current results to make comparisons."
"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."
"The pricing of the solution could be more reasonable."
"There needs to be better dashboard navigation."
"It can have more integration."
"The solution should be able to support more devices."
"The reporting feature needs to be improved."
"It wasn't very clear how the scripts are running the scans. There's information about the script but it's not straightforward. The script information for each of the plugins should be available, but it doesn't give us straightforward direct information about how it was executed. That needs to be more clear."
"Scans aren't done properly and some devices aren't pinged."
"The reporting is a bit cumbersome."
"We would like to have the option of using the solution for the cloud as well as on-premises with the same license at the same time. That would be very helpful."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with different vendors' IPS solutions. The ACLs and IPS policies signatures should be enabled based on the results of Tenable Nessus automatically, we currently have to do it manually which is very time-consuming. It has done a good job integrating with Fortinet but we would like it to be better integrated with other solutions that we have."
"Some things in the user interface could be better. The user interface could allow more adjustments to plugins. The price could also be better."
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Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is ranked 8th in Vulnerability Management with 6 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 24 reviews. Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is rated 7.8, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Tenable.io Vulnerability Management writes "Very mature and quite stable but could use a better user interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Easy to use, good support, and gives full reports of what's vulnerable per device". Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable SC, Rapid7 InsightVM, Snyk, Qualys VM and Arctic Wolf Managed Risk, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Rapid7 InsightVM, Qualys VM, Tenable SC, Rapid7 Metasploit and Microsoft Intune. See our Tenable Nessus vs. Tenable.io Vulnerability Management report.
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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 themselves, they would be able to do so. The updates that the program requires to keep up-to-date take up a large portion of the setup time. Tenable Nessus can be deployed in under an hour. The speed of an organization’s internet can impact how quickly the deployment will go. Furthermore, once it has been set up, only a small management team is necessary for maintenance. Tenable Nessus is an incredibly important program that provides businesses and organizations with robust protection. This ease of deployment and management gives it an edge over the competition.
Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is basically comparable to Tenable Nessus in regards to setup and management. It is relatively straightforward to set up. A single person could deploy it in a non-business setting in a matter of hours. The setup can be handled without requiring a business to rely on the help of outside consultants. As with Tenable Nessus, a small team of two or three people is all that is necessary to manage the solution. Organizations can save a great deal of time and resources by choosing to utilize this solution.
Tenable Nessus is a solution with good scalability. This can be accomplished with relative ease. However, the load that it can handle makes it a poor fit for larger organizations. At a certain point, the farther up you scale it, the more the solution quality diminishes.
Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is able to offer a much higher level of scalability. It is typically used without trouble by organizations with many thousands of users. As with Tenable Nessus, the process is relatively simple.
Conclusion:
The actual difference in time and ease as far as deploying Tenable Nessus versus Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is negligible and cannot truly set one apart from the other. Ease of management is another area where these two solutions are very similar. A major difference between them is their scalability. While both can be scaled relatively easily, Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is able to handle a higher level of scalability, with the diminishment of quality being a far lesser concern than is the case with Tenable Nessus.