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."One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The stability is very good."
"Ease of reviewing scores, identifying vulnerabilities, and getting information on them."
"The solution can scale well."
"I like the fact that it was not expensive. I like that it's user-friendly."
"I am impressed with the tool's vulnerability scanning."
"Tenable Nessus is one of the best vulnerability assessment tools, that I know."
"Tenable integrates well with other solutions such as SIEM and batch management."
"It provides multiple recommendations towards the remedy of vulnerabilities."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The general support could be improved."
"Integration can be improved."
"Lacks some penetration testing-related services."
"They should try to create an all-in-one solution."
"They should improve the I/O reporting and the customized spreadsheet export feature."
"I would like to see more on the automation side."
"The reporting could be improved. The reporting in Rapid7 is much better."
"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."
"One area that has room for improvement is the reporting. I'm preparing reports for Windows and Linux machines, etc. Currently, I'm collecting three or four reports and turning them into one report. I don't know if it is possible to combine all of them in one report, but that would be helpful."
"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."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 22nd 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 Vulnerability Management, Tenable Security Center and Rapid7 Metasploit. See our Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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