We performed a comparison between Pentera and Rapid7 InsightVM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"What I like the most about Pentera is its solution-oriented approach."
"The most valuable feature of Pentera is that you can do continuous vulnerability assessment, which is automated."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature for us is the different types of reporting it provides."
"The most valuable features are its reporting capabilities and the host discovery functionality."
"The performance is good."
"It's easy to use. It's fast, it's a powerful easy to access tool."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Using Rapid7, we can install a scan engine, we can do our VPN connections, and we can conduct internal scans of remote sites. We prefer the web application. It's smarter and more accurate from an application perspective."
"The cost is what is most valuable. Compared to the other products on the market, the cost is more palatable."
"NeXpose is a pretty good vulnerability scanner... There's a nice dashboard."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"Maybe scalability. I know that the Pentera right now is high level in order to scan big deals over 500 IPs and not less, and not less. That can be more granular. This will be useful."
"Pentera's general dashboards could be improved and made more specific in terms of vulnerabilities that I'm discovering."
"There is room for improvement in virtualization compatibility."
"The price could be improved."
"There is a significant learning curve, that non-technical individuals, especially those not specialized in computer science or the information security industry, might face."
"Within InsightVM, there is no feature to assign a ticket. If we can have more API calls, we can do that from InsightVM."
"We are a registered reseller and a trusted partner. However, for us to get any support from them I can't log a call directly with Rapid7 InsightVM. I have to work with the distributor to log the call for me."
"I would say that it improved our visibility, but it left things open."
"The integration with other solutions like JIRA could be better. Perhaps there could be some additional updates in the next phase that could integrate with it, so then you can proceed with the VT much easier."
"It would be nice to have an additional feature that would provide reports on who has logged onto the console or who did what on the console."
"The reporting could be better."
"There are not enough templates, and the reporting is weak with this solution."
Pentera is ranked 12th in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Rapid7 InsightVM is ranked 4th in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 55 reviews. Pentera is rated 8.2, while Rapid7 InsightVM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Pentera writes "A stable solution that can be used to do continuous and automated vulnerability assessments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 InsightVM writes "You can scan a network, and receive recommendations to address vulnerabilities with the click of a button". Pentera is most compared with Cymulate, Tenable Nessus, Picus Security, Horizon3.ai and Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, whereas Rapid7 InsightVM is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Security Center, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Rapid7 Metasploit.
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