We performed a comparison between IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment 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."The reporting features are good and there are many built-in reports that can be quickly configured."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides a simple English recommendation on actions that you need to take once a vulnerability is discovered."
"It helped with some of the regulatory requirements. It also helped with some of the security analytics and analysis. It was worthwhile from that perspective."
"The most valuable features are that it's fast, it's easy to use and it provides good reports."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to understand."
"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."
"With the Tenable Nessus enterprise edition, you have unlimited licenses to scan the device."
"I like this solution because it is complete. It can scan and check many types of vulnerabilities. It can also check for compliance."
"Nessus is effortless to integrate."
"Tenable Nessus is cheap and flexible."
"I like the fact that it was not expensive. I like that it's user-friendly."
"Building policies is not that easy. There are some things that are turned off by default, for example, displaying values."
"The interface could be improved by having sub-groups of tests, ultimately making the process of collecting tests faster."
"It was not as easy to use. The user-friendliness of it was somewhat lower than what I was expecting. It was also lacking in terms of the ease of the setup. There should be an automatic agent for deployment."
"EQA's and dashboards should be addressed in the next release."
"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 reports should be improved in Tenable Nessus. For example, when you are auditing compliance with CIS standards. It provides very poor reports."
"Pricing is one of the most important features, and it is something that they can improve on."
"The solution could improve security updates."
"Online learning could be a bit better."
"The price could be reduced."
"One significant drawback we encounter is the tool's tendency to flag patched packages incorrectly. For instance, if a package is patched by Debian maintainers but not updated to a major or minor version, Nessus may still flag it as vulnerable based on its database. This discrepancy leads to false alarms and requires our developers, system admins, and DevOps teams to address them."
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IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment is ranked 40th in Vulnerability Management with 3 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment is rated 6.6, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment writes "Worthwhile from the regulatory requirements and analytics perspective, but is expensive and not easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM and Orca Security, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Pentera. See our IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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