We performed a comparison between Microsoft Intune and Tenable Nessus based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Tenable Nessus has a slight edge in this comparison. According to its reviewers, it is easier to deploy than Microsoft Intune.
"The ability to block and erase remote devices is valuable to us, especially when those devices are lost."
"The ability to switch between Affinity and non-Affinity enrollment is great."
"Compliance and the policies that can be set are the most valuable features."
"There are so many features, but Windows Autopilot is one of the features that are very valuable for most customers."
"One of the most valuable aspects of Microsoft Intune is its seamless integration with Azure Active Directory, offering capabilities akin to Group Policy Objects."
"I like the fact that it's integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products, so customers can manage it from their Office 365 portal or Azure portal."
"I can see that the patch management process is much improved with the bundled patch management option available in Microsoft Intune compared to the KPI deployment required by the other deployment solutions."
"For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic."
"The solution is great for scanning servers."
"The plug-in text information is quite useful."
"The reports are pretty nice and easy to understand."
"Tenable Nessus is one of the best vulnerability assessment tools, that I know."
"The stability is very good."
"It provides multiple recommendations towards the remedy of vulnerabilities."
"The trial version is very good for testing whether it will suit your needs."
"Tenable Nessus is cheap and flexible."
"An area for improvement is the absence of seamless integration, particularly with external dashboards."
"I know that their AI pieces are at the infancy stage, but allowing users to do more tagging for information would be an interesting thing because Intune also directly integrates with Azure. Because a lot of the devices are hosted with that, you also get a lot of tagging of user data and other things like that."
"Reporting and troubleshooting for the application deployment could be better. It's very difficult to understand."
"Areas for improvement in Intune include expanding support beyond Samsung devices to accommodate other Android manufacturers like Redmi and Motorola."
"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
"Technical support is not that great."
"There can be delays in the deployment of new policies."
"There are items that require improvements. One is the controls from iOS."
"We'd like to see more integration potential within the solution."
"Multiple steps to create an actionable plan will be a great addition to Nessus."
"I would like to see an improvement in the ranking of high, medium and low vulnerability."
"The reporting is a bit cumbersome."
"The reports should be improved in Tenable Nessus. For example, when you are auditing compliance with CIS standards. It provides very poor reports."
"It would be better if they had application-level support for mobile devices. They don't have anything to scan mobile devices. Tenable Nessus doesn't have a mobile application vulnerability assessment. I also have issues with the false positive rates. The product has limited features."
"You can scale Nessus to the extent that you can afford it. You need to have a license for every device you scan. As long as you can afford the increased costs, you won't have a problem scaling it."
"They could make their reporting a little better."
Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) with 166 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Entra ID and SOTI MobiControl, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Security Center and ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus.
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