We performed a comparison between SecurityScorecard and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about RSA, BitSight, OneTrust and others in IT Vendor Risk Management."The solution helps identify our environment's vulnerabilities."
"One of its most effective features for risk identification is its enterprise-ready automation for third-party risk measurements."
"I rate the product's initial setup phase a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup process."
"With its automated approach, nothing is missed on the IPs your organization is related to."
"Its initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is how it scanned and detected through its database to let us know exactly what fixes we needed to put in place for the vulnerabilities. It detects and it also gives you the way to fix it."
"Among the most valuable features are scanning for vulnerabilities and the reporting. The reporting templates are okay. I like that I can see all the hosts with different vulnerabilities."
"Quick assessments, compliance scores, and results are provided without having to do agents."
"Out of the box, the product works well for us, so it's not a tool that we need to customize very much."
"It provides multiple recommendations towards the remedy of vulnerabilities."
"I have found the vulnerability assessment and the reports to be useful."
"The solution is easy to understand for users because instructions are included on the platform."
"There could be more information in regards to solving problems like hints on what specifically to look for."
"The tool needs to have the ability to mitigate vulnerabilities with alternative solutions."
"They could improve the process with a questionnaire module for the product."
"SecurityScorecard's technical team's response time is an area that my company expects to be made faster."
"Lacks some penetration testing-related services."
"In Nessus Professional, the main drawback was that we could have a single-user login password. So it could be better in terms of security."
"Multiple user access would be an area for improvement from a user-access perspective. A role-based access control feature would be great because at present, there is a limitation with only one account. If that account gets compromised or gets locked, then we will encounter problems."
"Pricing is one of the most important features, and it is something that they can improve on."
"We would like to have the option of using the solution for the cloud as well as on-premises with the same license at the same time. That would be very helpful."
"Online learning could be a bit better."
"Vulnerability recommendations are outdated and not in line with industry standards."
"We have had some false positives in the past, which we hope can improve in the future."
SecurityScorecard is ranked 5th in IT Vendor Risk Management with 4 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. SecurityScorecard is rated 8.0, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SecurityScorecard writes "Easy-to-deploy product with good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". SecurityScorecard is most compared with Bitsight Third-Party Risk Management, Recorded Future, RiskRecon, Rapid7 InsightVM and Qualys VMDR, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Pentera.
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