We performed a comparison between Tenable.sc and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Tenable.sc provides accurate vulnerability detection, compliance, and asset discovery, while Wiz prioritizes risks and offers context in the cloud environment. Tenable.sc has a user-friendly interface, while Wiz has easy-to-read dashboards and agentless scanning. Tenable.sc needs to work on its penetration testing, pricing, reporting, integrations, and accuracy of vulnerability assessment. Users have struggled with support difficulties. On the other hand, Wiz requires preventive controls, refined reporting, customizable dashboards, improved risk assessment, more frequent scans, and better tenant management.
Service and Support: Tenable.sc's customer service has received both positive and negative feedback, as some customers have appreciated the assistance provided while others have faced delays. In contrast, Wiz's customer service has been praised for its exceptional technical support and accessibility to account representatives.
Ease of Deployment: Tenable.sc may take longer and needs integration, while Wiz is a low-maintenance SaaS. Tenable.sc is easy to implement, but Wiz offers immediate value and visibility.
Pricing: Tenable.sc's pricing varies depending on the number of IP addresses scanned and additional costs for advanced support. Opinions on pricing differ. Wiz's pricing is deemed fair and straightforward, but there are concerns about potential price increases and lack of clarity in pricing. Wiz's pricing is viewed as reasonable given its capabilities and features in comparison to Tenable.sc.
ROI: Tenable.sc helps save on manpower costs and ensures a positive return on investment. On the other hand, Wiz focuses on improving asset management, container image maintenance, and compliance monitoring, and continues to add new features.
Comparison Results: Tenable.sc is the preferred choice over Wiz due to its comprehensive features, accurate vulnerability detection, and user-friendly interface. Tenable.sc offers advanced scanning, prioritization, and automation that make it easier for users to track remediation progress and validate compliance. Although Wiz is commended for its ability to provide context and prioritize risks in the cloud environment, users have identified areas for improvement, such as the need for preventive controls and more refined reporting capabilities.
"Tenable Security Center scans networks and gives reports."
"The most valuable features of Tenable SC are scanning, reporting, dashboards, and automation."
"We use Tenable to scan all of our environments and plugins for vulnerabilities. Tenable helps us discover network vulnerabilities to threats and piracy."
"I found the dashboard features very useful. It made it easy to track remediation progress. I could publish dashboards to remediation teams and track the progress on the dashboards."
"The solution has a lean and easy-to-use interface that is not confusing to first-time users."
"Compared to other products, the most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and ability to provide visibility over scan results while providing many templates to users, making it a helpful tool."
"The solution is completely stable and operation is user-friendly."
"What is useful to me is being able to fulfill very customized scanning policies. In the clinical environment, because of vendor control, we can't perform credential-vulnerability scanning. And network scans, which I've done before, can cause a lot of impact. Being able to create very customized policies to be able to routinely scan and audit our clinical networks, while simultaneously not causing impact, is important to us."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"Security can always be improved."
"The solution needs to improve the vulnerability assessment because we have experienced some challenges with accuracy."
"The tool's initial configuration is not so easy."
"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."
"We are facing some challenges related to our channel."
"The user interface can be improved."
"The solution's user interface has some issues."
"Current web page needs improvement, slows down processes."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews while Wiz is ranked 4th in Vulnerability Management with 11 reviews. Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM and Forescout Platform, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Lacework. See our Tenable Security Center vs. Wiz report.
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