We performed a comparison between PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition 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."Parallel scans can be done with PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition."
"The tool is loaded with many features that give us ROI."
"The product's initial setup phase was super easy."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition are the vast amount of options and ease of use. They frequently improve the solution every six months to a year. Additionally, if we want any more features we can upload a custom script to meet our needs."
"I like normal dynamic scanning, general web applications scanning, and vulnerability assessments."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"We are in the early stage of using the solution making it difficult to fully determine the best features. However, we have noticed the CMDB and device discovery features look valuable at this time."
"The most valuable feature is the installation of Tenable which is incredibly easy."
"Tenable Nessus is an absolutely stable and fantastic product."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is website scanning."
"The results are not that bad, but the key selling point is that it is an affordable tool set."
"It does exactly what you expect it to do, and its pricing is great. We couldn't really ask for a better deal."
"It provides multiple recommendations towards the remedy of vulnerabilities."
"I have found the vulnerability assessment and the reports to be useful."
"Tenable Nessus has a good performance, is very user-friendly, and is easy to use."
"There's definitely room for improvement. There are lots of false positives. Once I do the manual assessment, it comes as a false positive. They need to improve the Enterprise Edition, especially the part that gives false positives."
"The cost per license per user could be cheaper, specifically for individual licensing."
"There are features or functionality missing, but PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition does try to update frequently to alleviate the shortcomings."
"The implementation of the solution is quite complicated and could be easier."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"The product needs to have the ability to evaluate more."
"It would be better if the solution is cloud-based."
"The stability of the scans could be improved."
"There should be a possibility to install agents on scanned machines. Tenable IO provides the capability of using local agents to check local problems, but this feature is not there in Tenable Nessus Professional. It would be nice to have something similar in Tenable Nessus Professional. We should have the capability to use local agents installed on the machines to locally check a problem."
"We'd like to see the solution embrace more user-friendliness."
"Vulnerability recommendations are outdated and not in line with industry standards."
"The reporting could be improved. The reporting in Rapid7 is much better."
"This is still a maturing product. Tenable is only a scanner for one ability, while other solutions like Rapid7 have more tools for verification. We still have to manually verify to see if the vulnerability is a false positive or not."
"The reports should be improved in Tenable Nessus. For example, when you are auditing compliance with CIS standards. It provides very poor reports."
"We'd like to see more integration potential within the solution."
"They need more flexible pricing."
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PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition is ranked 13th in Vulnerability Management with 8 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition is rated 8.0, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition writes " With a super easy initial setup phase, the tool also offers regular updates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition is most compared with Acunetix, Rapid7 Metasploit, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Wiz and Qualys VMDR, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Acunetix. See our PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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