We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"It is easy to deploy and easy to use. Its reporting is good. From this reporting, you can see the pain point in your network, which makes it easy to fix them. It is easy to understand the reports and export them."
"It's scalable."
"The most valuable feature is how it scanned and detected through its database to let us know exactly what fixes we needed to put in place for the vulnerabilities. It detects and it also gives you the way to fix it."
"The most valuable feature is the installation of Tenable which is incredibly easy."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is website scanning."
"With the Tenable Nessus enterprise edition, you have unlimited licenses to scan the device."
"It also has an executive report where you don't have to provide the client all the detail for them to sift though. But if they wish to dig through the detail they can."
"It gives you an unlimited IP scan."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"Integration can be improved."
"The general support could be improved."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"We'd like to see the solution embrace more user-friendliness."
"Tenable Nessus could improve the reporting."
"It would be nice for the professional module to include some of the reports available in the expert module."
"We feel the solution's technical support to be very bad."
"Consumes more system resources when it's running."
"The reporting feature needs to be improved."
"It would be a good idea if they have a simulation of attacks or a use case for finding a new vulnerability or dealing with a zero-day attack."
"There could be an integration between Tenable Nessus and other Tenable products. It will help us manage all the solutions using one dashboard."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 23rd in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management writes "The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Rapid7 Metasploit. See our Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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