We performed a comparison between Skybox Security Suite 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 features that I have found most valuable with Skybox Security Suite, and this is because I work on the security side, are the firewall assurance, the change manager and the vulnerability control. These three features are the most impressive from Skybox Security."
"It's very supportive and very user-friendly."
"The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."
"I think that compliance checks and policy compliance are the product's good features."
"We use Network Assurance for network visualisation and troubleshooting."
"The most valuable feature is the compliance, whether it's access compliance or the configuration compliance, to make sure that all of our devices are configured as they're supposed to be, to limit access as much possible, to follow least-access guidelines."
"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."
"It has a good policy management feature and can provide customers with good quality outputs."
"The most valuable features are that it's fast, it's easy to use and it provides good reports."
"Ease of reviewing scores, identifying vulnerabilities, and getting information on them."
"The automatic scanner and scheduler are pretty cool."
"Tenable Nessus is cheap and flexible."
"We have done code scanning for a long period because as a company, we do DevOps as part of our development life cycle."
"Out of the box, the product works well for us, so it's not a tool that we need to customize very much."
"My favorite part about Nessus is that you can customize the tool to scan exactly what you want. Microsoft releases new patches monthly on Patch Tuesday, and a lot of companies track that date. I set up Nessus for the day after Patch Tuesday to see which devices have already pushed those updates from Microsoft, so we can stay updated."
"Security is the key number because it can start to scan with a few clicks instead of credits, which is a bit complicated. So simplicity is the first advantage. Then the generated reports are well done and easy to present to management. The quality of the scan is quite good in detecting the severity. The solution has simplicity. Also, it has frequent updates so that is also a valuable feature."
"The price could be cheaper."
"The solution does not support certain devices or vendors in some regions or countries due to regulations."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
"Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use."
"Change Manager can be improved. If they can improve Change Manager so that whatever we want to do on a firewall, we are able to do it through Change Manager, it will be helpful for us. Whenever we are doing a change, it only does them at an L3 and L4 level, but all the firewalls are at the application layer. So, whatever needs to be done on the firewall, we aren't able to get it done through Change Manager. Currently, this functionality is not there because of which we are sometimes losing customers. I can create a role on Layer 3, Layer 4, but when it comes to the application layer, such as configuring and defining URLs or other things at the application level, it can't be done through Change Manager. Customers demand that they should be able to do everything through Change Manager. They don't want to do it through some other mechanism to accomplish their complete change management policy. They don't want to use a firewall manager because sometimes, they don't have any manager. They ask if they can use our solution so that a manager is not required. If Change Manager can do all the management automatically without involving any other manager, it will be great. They can also provide better integration with other managers so that everything can be done through a central point."
"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."
"Remediation needs improvement."
"Model OS costs (and its segregation schema for individual modules)."
"Tenable Nessus could improve the reporting by adding some dashboards. The reports are a hassle at this time. Tenable.io has more detailed reports. Having a better dashboard that can show where the vulnerabilities are and be categorized would be helpful. We then could present them to upper management for a deep overview of our network posture which they do not see."
"The price could be reduced."
"The scalability of Tenable Nessus is good. However, it could be more flexible."
"Tenable Nessus could improve the reporting."
"It would be better if they had application-level support for mobile devices. They don't have anything to scan mobile devices. Tenable Nessus doesn't have a mobile application vulnerability assessment. I also have issues with the false positive rates. The product has limited features."
"The reports should be improved in Tenable Nessus. For example, when you are auditing compliance with CIS standards. It provides very poor reports."
Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Salt Security, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Security Center and Pentera. See our Skybox Security Suite vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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