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 solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The most valuable feature is the breadth of vulnerabilities that it finds. It's able to find across a lot of different platforms and operating systems. It's also able to combine local testing with network-based testing."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is real-time monitoring."
"I have experience with it on my attack stations, and it's pretty good to optimize. Personally, I think Nessus is quite a good product."
"The most valuable features are that it's fast, it's easy to use and it provides good reports."
"Makes ransomware checking and OS auditing and implementation relatively easy."
"Its initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"The initial setup of Tenable Nessus is very easy."
"I have found the vulnerability assessment and the reports to be useful."
"The general support could be improved."
"Integration can be improved."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"I would like to see an improvement in the ranking of high, medium and low vulnerability."
"EQA's and dashboards should be addressed in the next release."
"The price could be reduced."
"The product must be more comprehensive."
"The reporting feature needs to be improved."
"I would like to have a management option after the network scanning."
"The reporting could be improved. The reporting in Rapid7 is much better."
"The price and scalability of the solution could improve."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 23rd 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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