We performed a comparison between Tenable.io Vulnerability Management and Tenable SC based on our users’ reviews in four categories. Our conclusion is presented below.
Comparison Results: Tenable SC comes out ahead when it comes to the user interface and product support. However, it is an on-prem solution only, while Tenable.io Vulnerability Management is available for both cloud or on-prem deployment and is noted as integrating well with third-party solutions.
"The most valuable features of Tenable SC are the reports and the dashboards."
"Compliance and vulnerability scans are most valuable. Compliance scan helps in validating how our teams are complying, and vulnerability scan helps in future-proofing. Its vulnerability detection is accurate."
"The product is our second solution, and we are happy that it meets our requirements."
"Tenable.sc's best features are the availability model, accident management, and scoring."
"Tenable Security Center scans networks and gives reports."
"The tool provides us insight into the happens of the network and its hosts. It provides me with a list of hosts."
"Tenable SC's most valuable features are the low number of false positives and the strong capability of providing prioritization for the vulnerabilities detected."
"Tenable's most valuable features are the credential scan, vulnerability reports, and vulnerability ratings (VPR)."
"Tenable.io, in particular, is quite a powerful product. It looks at your traditional environment, which is pretty much anything that is on-premises, and it also goes a step ahead and covers your modern assets, which is anything that is currently sitting in the cloud. You get complete visibility of your entire environment and tech operation. The ability to give you visibility across the entire tech surface is one of the biggest advantages that Tenable.io has."
"It's a recommended tool for penetration testers because it's effective for that purpose."
"The integration of Tenable into our security ecosystem was very good."
"It helps us create remediation projects and assign the console’s responsibility to specific engineers."
"The tool has an easy-to-use interface."
"They are on a good trajectory as a company and investing in R&D in the right ways."
"The vulnerability management itself is the most valuable feature as well as references to the mitigation techniques."
"It is a very, very user-friendly tool...The setup is easy"
"The biggest issue I have with the solution is when I'm using the scanning it picks up the original DNS of that device. That means, before we image it and actually change the DNS to something within our company structure, it'll just be random numbers and letters and Tenable will stick to that DNS for a long time."
"Tenable.sc's user interface could be improved."
"A good plugin editor would be a good additional option for the Security Center."
"We are facing some challenges related to our channel."
"The user interface can be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its support. I would like to see a bird's eye view of my network architecture. I would also like to see the continuous view feature in the tool."
"Tenable has some problems with agents going offline during scanning and lag between agents and the security center."
"Deploying Tenable.sc is highly complex because it's an on-prem solution, whereas Tenable.io is cloud-based, so you can go live as soon as you log in. Tenable.sc involves significant integration with other on-prem solutions, and the deployment takes about two to three weeks with the help of a system integrator"
"Tenable could improve visibility into assets, including automated asset tagging. You should be able to automatically tag assets based on location, function, ownership, etc. That would help us because we spend a lot of time identifying and tagging assets by hand."
"There needs to be better dashboard navigation."
"It would be helpful if Tenable could be more clear with regard to everything the solution can and cannot do with the particular license that you have."
"The UI has room for improvement."
"The solution must be promoted more in the market."
"Users get confused between VPR and CVSS ratings."
"More flexibility is required compared to other solutions."
"The only drawback of the solution is that it is expensive."
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Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews while Tenable Vulnerability Management is ranked 2nd in Vulnerability Management with 39 reviews. Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2, while Tenable Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Vulnerability Management writes "Discovers vulnerabilities and integrates well with other solutions". Tenable Security Center is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Horizon3.ai and Tanium, whereas Tenable Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Qualys VMDR, Amazon Inspector, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Rapid7 InsightVM. See our Tenable Security Center vs. Tenable Vulnerability Management report.
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