We performed a comparison between Tenable Nessus and Tenable SC based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Tenable SC is the winner in this comparison. Tenable SC received higher marks for its support than Tenable Nessus did. In addition, its users feel that it is the more reasonably priced solution.
"We looked at Tenable, Qualys and Rapid7. We found Tenable was the best of all three."
"I like the fact that it was not expensive. I like that it's user-friendly."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that you receive the entire report, which details the breakdown, especially in terms of critical, high, low, and mediums."
"We have done code scanning for a long period because as a company, we do DevOps as part of our development life cycle."
"Its initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"The plug-in text information is quite useful."
"It allows me to prioritize efforts and utilize effective technical resources."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the dashboard. They are convenient to use."
"We really love the Security Center dashboard. It basically performs vulnerability scanning and then outputs a vulnerability data."
"Tenable's most valuable features are the credential scan, vulnerability reports, and vulnerability ratings (VPR)."
"Tenable is the leading product for vulnerability scanning."
"Compared to other products, the most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and ability to provide visibility over scan results while providing many templates to users, making it a helpful tool."
"The Auto-Remediate feature is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the vulnerability assessment."
"Tenable SC's most valuable features are the low number of false positives and the strong capability of providing prioritization for the vulnerabilities detected."
"I found the dashboard features very useful. It made it easy to track remediation progress. I could publish dashboards to remediation teams and track the progress on the dashboards."
"We'd like to see the solution embrace more user-friendliness."
"The features are limited when it comes to scanning network devices for vulnerabilities."
"Remediation needs improvement."
"They have added a new Tenable Nessus Expert. That is their new product, which caters to the cloud and everything else. I am assuming that the new features and product enhancements are based on that tool set, but we haven't reviewed it yet."
"The professional version is not very scalable."
"Nessus' reporting could be more user-friendly."
"One area that has room for improvement is the reporting. I'm preparing reports for Windows and Linux machines, etc. Currently, I'm collecting three or four reports and turning them into one report. I don't know if it is possible to combine all of them in one report, but that would be helpful."
"There is room for improvement in finishing the transition to the cloud. We'd like to see them keep on improving the Tenable.io product, so that we can migrate to it entirely, instead of having to keep the Tenable.sc on-prem product."
"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."
"If I want to have a very low-managed scan policy, it's a lot of work to create something which is very basic. If I use a tool like Nmap, all I have to do is download it, install it, type in the command, and it's good to go. In Security Center, I have to go through a lot of work to create a policy that's very basic."
"We experienced some difficulties with the solution’s support."
"The GUI could be improved to have all concerns and priorities use the same GUI, allowing them to see all tickets, assign vulnerabilities, and assign variation failures to each member of their team."
"The product should provide risk-based vulnerability management."
"The solution should include compliance-based scanning."
"A good plugin editor would be a good additional option for the Security Center."
"For downloading reports, we have to go to the scan and then we have to go to the reports and download the Excel or CSV or PDF. I think these menus and clicks can be minimized."
Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews. Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4, while Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Pentera and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Horizon3.ai and Tanium. See our Tenable Nessus vs. Tenable Security Center report.
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