We performed a comparison between Tenable Nessus and XM Cyber based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found the vulnerability assessment and the reports to be useful."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that you receive the entire report, which details the breakdown, especially in terms of critical, high, low, and mediums."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is real-time monitoring."
"Tenable Nessus streamlines the process of scanning for our organization."
"The solution is easy to understand for users because instructions are included on the platform."
"The product's most valuable features are vulnerability and asset management. It can define the rules and validate the configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the installation of Tenable which is incredibly easy."
"I like the fact that it was not expensive. I like that it's user-friendly."
"The platform's most valuable feature is attack simulation."
"What I personally like very much, from my experience, is that it is very reliable."
"Tenable Nessus could improve by having more steady updates which will reduce the vulnerabilities."
"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."
"One significant drawback we encounter is the tool's tendency to flag patched packages incorrectly. For instance, if a package is patched by Debian maintainers but not updated to a major or minor version, Nessus may still flag it as vulnerable based on its database. This discrepancy leads to false alarms and requires our developers, system admins, and DevOps teams to address them."
"Tenable Nessus could improve the reporting by adding some dashboards. The reports are a hassle at this time. Tenable.io has more detailed reports. Having a better dashboard that can show where the vulnerabilities are and be categorized would be helpful. We then could present them to upper management for a deep overview of our network posture which they do not see."
"Lacks some penetration testing-related services."
"The accuracy of the vulnerability assessment is not up to par yet, as false alarms and false positives occur often."
"I would like to have a management option after the network scanning."
"The interface is a little bit clunky, and the reporting is not marvelous. There should be better integration of reporting between instances. Currently, the instance stands alone, and it produces a report. Being able to amalgamate those reports with another instance will be useful."
"XM Cyber could identify all areas of vulnerability. They could expand the identification span for different areas."
"We'd like to see a cheaper price."
Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews while XM Cyber is ranked 23rd in Vulnerability Management with 2 reviews. Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4, while XM Cyber is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of XM Cyber writes "Reliable with no false-positives and helpful support". Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Pentera, whereas XM Cyber is most compared with Pentera, Cymulate, SafeBreach, Picus Security and Darktrace. See our Tenable Nessus vs. XM Cyber report.
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