We performed a comparison between RiskIQ Illuminate and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Mandiant, Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro and others in Attack Surface Management (ASM)."The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
"I find the features that are most valuable are the policies that help us identify the vulnerabilities. These policies are then used for scanning instabilities and then identifying the particular vulnerabilities."
"My favorite part about Nessus is that you can customize the tool to scan exactly what you want. Microsoft releases new patches monthly on Patch Tuesday, and a lot of companies track that date. I set up Nessus for the day after Patch Tuesday to see which devices have already pushed those updates from Microsoft, so we can stay updated."
"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 automatic scanner and scheduler are pretty cool."
"The plug-in text information is quite useful."
"We have around 500 virtual machines. Therefore, we conduct monthly scans and open tickets for our developers to address identified vulnerabilities. These scans cover the servers, other network equipment, and appliances in our infrastructure."
"I like this solution because it is complete. It can scan and check many types of vulnerabilities. It can also check for compliance."
"The solution is easy to understand for users because instructions are included on the platform."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
"They could make their reporting a little better."
"I would like to have a management option after the network scanning."
"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."
"The reporting could be improved. The reporting in Rapid7 is much better."
"The scalability of Tenable Nessus is good. However, it could be more flexible."
"The reporting is a bit cumbersome."
"Lacks some penetration testing-related services."
"Tenable Nessus could improve the price."
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RiskIQ Illuminate is ranked 15th in Attack Surface Management (ASM) while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. RiskIQ Illuminate is rated 0.0, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of RiskIQ Illuminate writes "Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". RiskIQ Illuminate is most compared with Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Recorded Future and ZeroFOX, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Pentera.
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