We performed a comparison between Tenable Nessus and XM Cyber 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 vulnerability scanner is the most valuable feature."
"Overall Zoom is a good solution."
"It does exactly what you expect it to do, and its pricing is great. We couldn't really ask for a better deal."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"I have experience with it on my attack stations, and it's pretty good to optimize. Personally, I think Nessus is quite a good product."
"Tenable Nessus is an absolutely stable and fantastic product."
"It gives a holistic view of your entire environment."
"Among the most valuable features are scanning for vulnerabilities and the reporting. The reporting templates are okay. I like that I can see all the hosts with different vulnerabilities."
"The platform's most valuable feature is attack simulation."
"What I personally like very much, from my experience, is that it is very reliable."
"There is room for improvement in finishing the transition to the cloud. We'd like to see them keep on improving the Tenable.io product, so that we can migrate to it entirely, instead of having to keep the Tenable.sc on-prem product."
"I would like to have a management option after the network scanning."
"They should try to create an all-in-one solution."
"The professional version is not very scalable."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say its reporting portion."
"The interface is a little bit clunky, and the reporting is not marvelous. There should be better integration of reporting between instances. Currently, the instance stands alone, and it produces a report. Being able to amalgamate those reports with another instance will be useful."
"Multiple steps to create an actionable plan will be a great addition to Nessus."
"They could make their reporting a little better."
"XM Cyber could identify all areas of vulnerability. They could expand the identification span for different areas."
"We'd like to see a cheaper price."
Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews while XM Cyber is ranked 26th in Vulnerability Management with 2 reviews. Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4, while XM Cyber is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of XM Cyber writes "Reliable with no false-positives and helpful support". Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Security Center and Pentera, whereas XM Cyber is most compared with Pentera, Cymulate, SafeBreach, Picus Security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our Tenable Nessus vs. XM Cyber report.
See our list of best Vulnerability Management vendors.
We monitor all Vulnerability Management reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.