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 solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The solution is great for scanning servers."
"The most valuable feature is the installation of Tenable which is incredibly easy."
"It gives a holistic view of your entire environment."
"The ease of use is the primary valuable feature. This specific version is very straightforward. I like the ability to modify it and configure it based on the different policies."
"Nessus gives me a good preview of vulnerabilities and good suggestions for remediation. It's easy to find a description of a given vulnerability and solutions for it."
"Security is the key number because it can start to scan with a few clicks instead of credits, which is a bit complicated. So simplicity is the first advantage. Then the generated reports are well done and easy to present to management. The quality of the scan is quite good in detecting the severity. The solution has simplicity. Also, it has frequent updates so that is also a valuable feature."
"Ease of reviewing scores, identifying vulnerabilities, and getting information on them."
"Easy to set up vulnerability scanner with good stability and a responsive technical support team."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"The general support could be improved."
"Integration can be improved."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The solution could improve security updates."
"The reporting is a bit cumbersome."
"There is room, overall, for improvement in the way it groups the workstations and the way it detects, when the vulnerability is scanned. Even when we would run a new scan, if it was an already existing vulnerability, it wouldn't put a new date on it."
"Nessus' reporting could be more user-friendly."
"The report for counters is too simple and would be improved by a dashboard."
"We use credentialed scans. They need more permissions and more changes or settings on Windows and Linux."
"In Nessus Professional, the main drawback was that we could have a single-user login password. So it could be better in terms of security."
"The features are limited when it comes to scanning network devices for vulnerabilities."
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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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