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."Tenable Nessus streamlines the process of scanning for our organization."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the GUI and user-friendliness. Additionally, the environment is easy to work with."
"The solution can scale well."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to understand."
"The most valuable features of Tenable Nessus are the scanning option. Advanced scanning is highly useful. The offline config audits and application assessments are useful."
"Tenable Nessus is cheap and flexible."
"Its initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"What I personally like very much, from my experience, is that it is very reliable."
"The platform's most valuable feature is attack simulation."
"We would like to have the option of using the solution for the cloud as well as on-premises with the same license at the same time. That would be very helpful."
"It would be nice for the professional module to include some of the reports available in the expert module."
"I would like to see an improvement in the ranking of high, medium and low vulnerability."
"I would like to see more on the automation side."
"Tenable Nessus application device assessment is one of the top tools. However, in the application security assessment, there are other tools that provide better, and more accurate findings."
"They have added a new Tenable Nessus Expert. That is their new product, which caters to the cloud and everything else. I am assuming that the new features and product enhancements are based on that tool set, but we haven't reviewed it yet."
"I would like to have a management option after the network scanning."
"One area with room for improvement is instead of there just being a PDF format for output, I'd like the option of an Excel spreadsheet, whereby I could better track remediation efforts and provide reporting off of that."
"We'd like to see a cheaper price."
"XM Cyber could identify all areas of vulnerability. They could expand the identification span for different areas."
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.
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