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Tenable Security Center vs UpGuard Vendor Risk comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Tenable Security Center
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (14th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (3rd)
UpGuard Vendor Risk
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
IT Vendor Risk Management (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Tenable Security Center is designed for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management and holds a mindshare of 8.9%, down 16.5% compared to last year.
UpGuard Vendor Risk, on the other hand, focuses on IT Vendor Risk Management, holds 3.0% mindshare, down 3.8% since last year.
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tenable Security Center8.9%
Qualys VMDR12.1%
Rapid7 InsightVM10.5%
Other68.5%
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
IT Vendor Risk Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
UpGuard Vendor Risk3.0%
OneTrust GRC8.7%
SecurityScorecard7.5%
Other80.8%
IT Vendor Risk Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1534134 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Information Security at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Centralized analytics have strengthened patch visibility and support efficient regulatory reporting
From my experience, I assess the product's analytics capabilities as successful. It helped us significantly with patching and managing the risk of the patching process across all our environments, including network devices with Windows and Unix systems. The product covered several environments and gave us exactly what we needed in our environment. Tenable Security Center's centralized platform helped with risk assessment and management across our IT environments. It covered the patching process, and we previously faced many issues regarding how to patch different environments, how to monitor the patching process, and whether it was successful or not. We obtained good reports showing when patches were closed and the details of each patch, including who executed it and everything related to the patching process until it was closed. This gave us good details about the process which helped us significantly in our reporting and even in audits, whether internal or external. We learned how to close audit issues safely and successfully. We used the dashboards for real-time threat insights and extracted several dashboards from Tenable Security Center. We use these dashboards in our cybersecurity dashboard and committees that we have. These dashboards are part of our committees, especially the cybersecurity committee and other committees that we attend.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Government
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise27
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Tenable SC?
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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tenable SC?
The price of Tenable Security Center is not so high; it's relatively a cheaper solution.
What needs improvement with Tenable SC?
We did conduct a long implementation which relates to what I think can be improved about Tenable Security Center. In some cases, we needed to refer back to Tenable itself, and in other cases, we ne...
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Also Known As

Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter
ScriptRock
 

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Sample Customers

IBM, Sempra Energy, Microsoft, Apple, Adidas, Union Pacific
ADP, E Trade, Cisco, Trek, GSA, Backcountry, Mimeo.com, Citrix, RackSpace, Modern Woodhouse, CFA Institute, Allianz
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