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.
"Feature-wise, Tenable Security Center is a very fast tool with many dashboards and reports, and it covers all our systems."
"Very customizable with a lot of templates."
"The scanning part, the agent part – that's the valuable aspect."
"The solution is completely stable and operation is user-friendly."
"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."
"Tenable.sc is user-friendly."
"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."
"I think that this is a good solution for evaluating vulnerability in the network."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"You can customize each point in new scans."
"The initial setup is straightforward so long as your infrastructure, components, and networks are in place."
"It is a very, very user-friendly tool...The setup is easy"
"The solution's most valuable feature is providing a single pane of visibility on all the infrastructure and its status."
"It is quite straightforward to set up."
"The dashboard is pretty intuitive, and it lets you do a drill-down analysis of each vulnerability. That is something that brings a lot of value to the organization."
"The vulnerability management itself is the most valuable feature as well as references to the mitigation techniques."
"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."
"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."
"We are facing some challenges related to our channel."
"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."
"In terms of configuration, there is some level of flexibility that we are not able to achieve."
"The product could be user-friendly, and they could enhance the web application's security features."
"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."
"Security can always be improved."
"The solution must provide penetration testing."
"The solution is a bit slow."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"There needs to be better dashboard navigation."
"We'd like to see a bit more user-friendliness."
"The one drawback that we have found is the reports."
"I don't recommend Tenable.io Vulnerability Management for web scanning"
"The price could be lower."
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Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews while Tenable Vulnerability Management is ranked 2nd in Vulnerability Management with 38 reviews. Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2, while Tenable Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2. 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 Tenable Vulnerability Management writes "Discovers vulnerabilities and integrates well with other solutions". Tenable Security Center is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Horizon3.ai and Tanium, whereas Tenable Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Qualys VMDR, Amazon Inspector, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Rapid7 InsightVM. See our Tenable Security Center vs. Tenable Vulnerability Management report.
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