Tenable Security Center vs XM Cyber comparison

Tenable and XM Cyber are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Tenable is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.7, while XM Cyber is ranked #31 with an average rating of 8.5. Tenable holds a 3.5% mindshare in VM, compared to XM Cyber’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Tenable users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of XM Cyber users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Tenable Security Center and XM Cyber compete in the cybersecurity landscape. Tenable Security Center appears to have a stronger focus on comprehensive vulnerability management, while XM Cyber stands out for advanced threat simulation.

Features: Tenable Security Center offers extensive asset coverage, detailed vulnerability insights, and robust risk assessment capabilities. It ensures comprehensive vulnerability tracking and reporting. XM Cyber provides advanced breach and attack simulation tools, emphasizing continuous cyber risk assessment and proactive mitigation strategies.

Room for Improvement: Tenable Security Center may benefit from enhanced cloud capabilities, more streamlined deployment processes, and improved simulation features. XM Cyber could focus on expanding its asset coverage, providing more detailed vulnerability insights, and reinforcing reporting functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tenable Security Center uses a traditional deployment model, with potentially longer initial setup times, but offers strong customer support for integration and maintenance. XM Cyber features a streamlined deployment process with a cloud-first approach, leading to quicker setup and potentially more agile customer service experiences.

Pricing and ROI: Tenable Security Center may involve higher initial setup costs due to its extensive feature set but delivers significant ROI through comprehensive vulnerability management. XM Cyber offers competitive pricing and a potentially quicker ROI, focusing on simulated threat assessments and proactive security measures.

To learn more, read our detailed Tenable Security Center vs. XM Cyber Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Tenable Security Center vs. XM Cyber

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Zafran Security is 1.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Security Center is 3.5%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of XM Cyber is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Tenable Security Center	3.5%
Zafran Security	1.1%
XM Cyber	1.1%
Other	94.3%

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Featured Reviews

Israel Cavazos Landini

Associate Director IT Security Operations at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Weekly insights and risk analysis facilitate informed security decisions

I appreciate the weekly insights Zafran provides, which include critical topics for networks and IT security, allowing us to evaluate which insights apply to our environment. The organization score feature is valuable to keep the leadership team updated on how our infrastructure fares security-wise. The applicable risk level versus base risk level feature is beneficial because prior to Zafran, we only used the base risk level, but now understand that risk depends on the asset itself. Zafran is an excellent tool.

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OndrejKOVAC

Solution engineer at EXPERTience

Empower clients with risk-based vulnerability management through continuous workflow and valuable insights

Tenable Security Center could improve by implementing more dynamic data displays and translating reports into European languages. This is especially relevant in Central Eastern Europe, where clients often require reports in local languages. Additionally, the licensing model could be more flexible for managed security providers, similar to a pay-as-you-go model.

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Stephen Owen

Group CISO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Has significantly improved risk visibility and optimized remediation efforts across dynamic environments

We tightly integrate with APIs, consuming feeds and open source data. We have integrated with XM Cyber, and we are elevating ourselves with AI and MCP tools as we view this as a forerunner to reducing the workload for our agents and IT staff. We're pushing all our security partners to provide AI and MCP tools. Our vision is for them to offer a chat interface where a junior IT or an experienced infrastructure engineer can ask for what needs to be patched next without using an interface. Their current interface is very usable and professional, ranking in the top tier of applications. Their reporting is good, offering custom reports, and their API integration is a new capability that serves us well. We have high expectations for the next generation, such as a chat interface to ask questions. However, everything has been very good. We push the boundaries with digital twins; I understand XM Cyber uses a similar concept of graph databases to map environments. I would like access to that and querying languages, enabling more informed business decisions. XM Cyber sees much of our estate, which is beneficial for making informed decisions, and we can harness those insights and data for business analytics. For instance, it could help us gain insights into change management—if a particular server impacts another and that server is supported by yet another server, we could glean significant insights for change management meetings.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Zafran has become an indispensable tool in our cybersecurity arsenal."

"We saw benefits from Zafran Security almost immediately after deploying it."

"We are able to see the real risk of a vulnerability on our environment with our security tools."

"Zafran is an excellent tool."

"Overall, we have seen about eighty-seven percent reduction of the number of vulnerabilities that require urgency to remediate, specifically the number of criticals."

"This solution has a much lower rate of false positives compared to competing products."

"I think that this is a good solution for evaluating vulnerability in the network."

"I like Tenable.sc's analytics and reporting. You can also configure your on-prem network monitors to talk to your Tenable.sc control panel."

"The predictive prioritization features are pretty good. They do a lot of research and we trust the research that they do internally. They have knowledge of what's going on with many companies, where we only get a view into what's going on here. So the ability to get best practices out of them as part of this solution, is valuable to us."

"The tool gives us fewer false positives. Compared to its competitors, the solution’s reports are more accurate."

"Their overall cost of service is pretty good."

"Support is knowledgeable."

"We use Tenable to scan all of our environments and plugins for vulnerabilities. Tenable helps us discover network vulnerabilities to threats and piracy."

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"The platform's most valuable feature is attack simulation."

"XM Cyber made it clear that browser vulnerabilities were the top priority because the platform was able to examine how vulnerabilities within our estate could be exploited and what the path would be from some bad actor in order to exploit those vulnerabilities."

"What I personally like very much, from my experience, is that it is very reliable."

"Since implementing XM Cyber, we have improved the way we are doing patching, focusing on the choke points in our patching cycle, and it improves the way we assess the risk."

"Six weeks into using XM Cyber, we saw a compelling return on investment—primarily in risk reduction, with a specific issue our other security tooling did not pick up but XM Cyber did, reducing IT remediation time and saving over 60,000 US dollars per year while significantly lowering our loss exposure amount."

Cons

"The dashboarding and reporting functionality of Zafran Security is an area that definitely could use some improvements."

"I think the ability to have some enhanced reporting capabilities is something they can improve on, as they have good reports but we have asked for some specific reporting enhancements."

"Initially, we were somewhat concerned about the scalability of Zafran due to our large asset count and the substantial amount of information we needed to process."

"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."

"The GUI could be improved to have all concerns and priorities use the same GUI, allowing them to see all tickets, assign vulnerabilities, and assign variation failures to each member of their team."

"The user interface can be improved."

"The solution's user interface has some issues."

"We would like to see the inclusion of external IPs and simplified reporting that's easier to deal with"

"I think the vendor training provided for Tenable.sc could be a lower price. It's quite expensive for the training."

"The pricing is reasonable, but this could be brought down more aggressively, such as we see with Rapid7, Tenable SC's main competitor."

"There is not much room for improvement. However, there should be a guide that describes the step-by-step procedures for doing tasks. Otherwise, training is required from a senior guy to a junior guy."

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"There are many interesting things about XM Cyber, but the part that can be improved is the mobile exposure and the IBM i specific equipment."

"XM Cyber could identify all areas of vulnerability. They could expand the identification span for different areas."

"We have not saved any time or effort, but we can prove that the effort involved around vulnerability management has been better spent to greater effect, and we've been able to demonstrate that vulnerabilities that do represent a high risk have been remediated more rapidly and more effectively."

"We have high expectations for the next generation, such as a chat interface to ask questions."

"We'd like to see a cheaper price."

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"The licensing costs for this solution are approximately $100,000 US, and I think that covers everything."

"It is slightly more expensive than other solutions in the same sphere."

"Though reasonable, the main competitor of Tenable SC, Rapid7, offers a more aggressive and better priced product."

"Tenable.sc is more expensive than its competitors."

"We're happy with the licensing cost and find it affordable."

"I use a local license to perform penetration testing and I'm pretty happy with everything when it comes to pricing and licensing."

"This solution's price is quite high."

"The pricing depends upon the number of IPs."

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"We have to pay standard licensing fees."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Retailer

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	26

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zafran Security?

Since we stood Zafran Security up in our private cloud, we handle the maintenance on our side. As we opted not to use...

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What needs improvement with Zafran Security?

In terms of areas for improvement, Zafran Security is doing a really great job as a new and emerging company. Oftenti...

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What is your primary use case for Zafran Security?

My use cases for Zafran Security revolve around two primary areas. One is around vulnerability management and priorit...

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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 ...

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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.

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What needs improvement with Tenable SC?

The reason for rating it an eight out of ten is that the initial setup could be easier; the setup is rather difficult...

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What do you like most about XM Cyber?

The platform's most valuable feature is attack simulation.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for XM Cyber?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that we have a large, complicated estate, and in the licens...

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What needs improvement with XM Cyber?

There are many interesting things about XM Cyber, but the part that can be improved is the mobile exposure and the IB...

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Also Known As

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Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter

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Overview

Zafran Security integrates with existing security tools to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities effectively, proving that most critical vulnerabilities are not exploitable, optimizing threat management.

Zafran Security introduces an innovative operating model for managing security threats and vulnerabilities. By leveraging the threat exposure management platform, it pinpoints and prioritizes exploitable vulnerabilities, reducing risk through immediate remediation. This platform enhances your hybrid cloud security by normalizing vulnerability signals and integrating specific IT context data, such as CVE runtime presence and internet asset reachability, into its analysis. No longer reliant on patch windows, Zafran Security allows you to manage risks actively.

What are the key features of Zafran Security?

Threat Exposure Management: Utilizes existing tools to prioritize vulnerabilities and manage threats.
Integrative Analysis: Combines security data with IT context for precise vulnerability management.
Real-time Risk Reduction: Enables immediate risk management without waiting for patches.
Hybrid Cloud Compatibility: Functions across diverse cloud environments for comprehensive security.

What benefits can users expect from Zafran Security?

Improved Security: Enhances protection by efficiently identifying and mitigating risks.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces unnecessary patching expenses by confirming non-exploitable vulnerabilities.
Time Savings: Frees developers to focus on root causes by handling immediate threats.
Comprehensive Insight: Offers a holistic view of security threats and vulnerabilities.

In industries where security is paramount, such as finance and healthcare, Zafran Security provides invaluable protection by ensuring that only exploitable vulnerabilities are addressed. It allows entities to maintain robust security measures while allocating resources efficiently, fitting seamlessly into existing security strategies.

Zafran Security

Get a risk-based view of your IT, security and compliance posture so you can quickly identify, investigate and prioritize your most critical assets and vulnerabilities.

Managed on-premises and powered by Nessus technology, the Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc) suite of products provides the industry’s most comprehensive vulnerability coverage with real-time continuous assessment of your network. It’s your complete end-to-end vulnerability management solution.

Tenable

XM Cyber is a leading hybrid cloud security company that’s changing the way innovative organizations approach cyber risk. Our attack path management platform continuously uncovers hidden attack paths to your critical assets across cloud and on-prem environments, so you can cut them off at key junctures and eradicate risk with a fraction of the effort. This overcomes the big disconnect that security teams experience when they’re presented with endless alerts, yet can’t see which exposures impact risk the most, how they come together to be exploited by an attacker, or how to efficiently eliminate them. This approach is a complete game-changer, which is why some of the world’s largest, most complex organizations choose XM Cyber to help eradicate risk. Founded by top executives from the Israeli cyber intelligence community, XM Cyber has offices in North America, Europe, and Israel.

XM Cyber

Sample Customers

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IBM, Sempra Energy, Microsoft, Apple, Adidas, Union Pacific

Hamburg Port Authority, Plymouth Rock Corporation

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