We performed a comparison between Tenable.io Vulnerability Management and Tenable SC based on our users’ reviews in four categories. Our conclusion is presented below.
Comparison Results: Tenable SC comes out ahead when it comes to the user interface and product support. However, it is an on-prem solution only, while Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is available for both cloud or on-prem deployment and is noted as integrating well with third-party solutions.
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"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."
"They are on a good trajectory as a company and investing in R&D in the right ways."
"The vulnerability scanning is the most important aspect of the solution for us."
"The initial setup is straightforward so long as your infrastructure, components, and networks are in place."
"The solution can integrate with third parties and meets standard compliance."
"It is very stable, and it is updated periodically by adding new vulnerabilities."
"Their overall cost of service is pretty good."
"I find Tenable SC to be a very scalable product."
"Very customizable with a lot of templates."
"The usability is really good. It's very easy to use and a good platform. It is scalable and very stable. The technical support is fine and the setup is super easy."
"The feature we've liked most recently was being able to take the YARA rules from FireEye and put them into Tenable's scan for the most recent SolarWinds exploit. That was really useful."
"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."
"It's a very useful tool."
"We use Tenable to scan all of our environments and plugins for vulnerabilities. Tenable helps us discover network vulnerabilities to threats and piracy."
"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."
"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."
"Tenable.io Vulnerability Management could be improved with an increased number of dashboards and MSSP integration."
"It can have more integration."
"The pricing of the solution could be more reasonable."
"The solution seems to focus too much on enterprises, and they really need a product that works for SMBs."
"There needs to be better dashboard navigation."
"There is not much room for improvement. However, there should be a guide that describes the step-by-step procedures for doing tasks. Otherwise, training is required from a senior guy to a junior guy."
"Tenable SC can improve by making it easier to create complicated reports and have more effectiveness in the remediation area for comparison between the scans."
"The GUI could be improved to have all concerns and priorities use the same GUI, allowing them to see all tickets, assign vulnerabilities, and assign variation failures to each member of their team."
"The biggest issue I have with the solution is when I'm using the scanning it picks up the original DNS of that device. That means, before we image it and actually change the DNS to something within our company structure, it'll just be random numbers and letters and Tenable will stick to that DNS for a long time."
"Its reporting can be improved. It is not easy to generate a scan report the way we want. The data is okay, but we can't easily change the template to make it look the way we want."
"For downloading reports, we have to go to the scan and then we have to go to the reports and download the Excel or CSV or PDF. I think these menus and clicks can be minimized."
"I will say it's a lot slower compared to an MS scan. It takes so much longer, so the performance could definitely be worked on."
"Tenable SC can improve by adding more integrations with HCI-type tools and more accurate vulnerability detection."
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Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is ranked 8th in Vulnerability Management with 7 reviews while Tenable SC is ranked 2nd in Vulnerability Management with 14 reviews. Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is rated 7.8, while Tenable SC 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 SC writes "Monitors our whole environment in real time and makes everything more secure". Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Qualys VM, Snyk and Orca Security, whereas Tenable SC is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Qualys VM, Rapid7 InsightVM, Forescout Platform and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine). See our Tenable SC vs. Tenable.io Vulnerability Management report.
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