We performed a comparison between Tenable Nessus and Tenable SC based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Tenable SC is the winner in this comparison. Tenable SC received higher marks for its support than Tenable Nessus did. In addition, its users feel that it is the more reasonably priced solution.
"I like this solution because it is complete. It can scan and check many types of vulnerabilities. It can also check for compliance."
"It gives a holistic view of your entire environment."
"The most valuable features are that it's fast, it's easy to use and it provides good reports."
"I have experience with it on my attack stations, and it's pretty good to optimize. Personally, I think Nessus is quite a good product."
"The most valuable feature is the breadth of vulnerabilities that it finds. It's able to find across a lot of different platforms and operating systems. It's also able to combine local testing with network-based testing."
"With the Tenable Nessus enterprise edition, you have unlimited licenses to scan the device."
"Easy to set up vulnerability scanner with good stability and a responsive technical support team."
"Nessus' most valuable feature is vulnerability management because it helps to discover vulnerabilities proactively and integrates with patch management solutions so you can push patches."
"Very customizable with a lot of templates."
"The tool's dashboard and reporting capabilities match our company's needs since we are able to modify the basic view to create a new dashboard, and it works out very well for our needs."
"The product is our second solution, and we are happy that it meets our requirements."
"Has a great advanced scanning feature."
"The tool provides us insight into the happens of the network and its hosts. It provides me with a list of hosts."
"We really love the Security Center dashboard. It basically performs vulnerability scanning and then outputs a vulnerability data."
"It is a very good and user-friendly product."
"Tenable Security Center scans networks and gives reports."
"They have added a new Tenable Nessus Expert. That is their new product, which caters to the cloud and everything else. I am assuming that the new features and product enhancements are based on that tool set, but we haven't reviewed it yet."
"The reports are okay, but the interface is a bit difficult to navigate in some cases."
"I have found it is sometimes difficult to control the Zoom meeting sessions. For example, it is difficult to know who is talking and when trying to mute everyone but the speaker you end up muting everyone. When using multiple screens it is laborious to find the control buttons, such as to start a session. Additionally, when a recording is done I have found it difficult to find them, there should be an easier way to retrieve them."
"Remediation needs improvement."
"The report for counters is too simple and would be improved by a dashboard."
"There should be a possibility to install agents on scanned machines. Tenable IO provides the capability of using local agents to check local problems, but this feature is not there in Tenable Nessus Professional. It would be nice to have something similar in Tenable Nessus Professional. We should have the capability to use local agents installed on the machines to locally check a problem."
"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."
"Tenable Nessus could improve the price."
"The pricing is reasonable, but this could be brought down more aggressively, such as we see with Rapid7, Tenable SC's main competitor."
"I think the vendor training provided for Tenable.sc could be a lower price. It's quite expensive for the training."
"Though the solution's technical support is responsive, they do take a lot of time, making it one of the solution's shortcomings that needs improvement."
"Tenable SC could improve by making the creation of the initial reports easier that correspond to our network."
"The solution should provide better web application features and support."
"The solution needs to improve the vulnerability assessment because we have experienced some challenges with accuracy."
"We are facing some challenges related to our channel."
"The integration is very good, although it still needs to improve."
Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews. Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4, while Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "Reliable, useful reports, but initial report configuration could improve". Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Pentera and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Horizon3.ai and Tanium. See our Tenable Nessus vs. Tenable Security Center report.
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