We performed a comparison between Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Wiz, SentinelOne and others in Vulnerability Management."The solution is very easy to use."
"I like the fact that it was not expensive. I like that it's user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the dashboard. They are convenient to use."
"Nessus gives me a good preview of vulnerabilities and good suggestions for remediation. It's easy to find a description of a given vulnerability and solutions for it."
"Scanners and reports using CIS templates ("de-facto" standard, easy to fix and to locate correction tips at documentation), tests against cloud providers, database profiles, several types of telecom devices, and others highly customizable scans."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the self-updating engine."
"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."
"The results are not that bad, but the key selling point is that it is an affordable tool set."
"The solution is great for scanning servers."
"The reports must be more specific to help us understand what we should do to mitigate the problem."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with different vendors' IPS solutions. The ACLs and IPS policies signatures should be enabled based on the results of Tenable Nessus automatically, we currently have to do it manually which is very time-consuming. It has done a good job integrating with Fortinet but we would like it to be better integrated with other solutions that we have."
"It would be a good idea if they have a simulation of attacks or a use case for finding a new vulnerability or dealing with a zero-day attack."
"The reporting feature needs to be improved."
"Some things in the user interface could be better. The user interface could allow more adjustments to plugins. The price could also be better."
"You can scale Nessus to the extent that you can afford it. You need to have a license for every device you scan. As long as you can afford the increased costs, you won't have a problem scaling it."
"There could be an integration between Tenable Nessus and other Tenable products. It will help us manage all the solutions using one dashboard."
"Nessus' reporting could be more user-friendly."
"We have had some false positives in the past, which we hope can improve in the future."
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Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager is ranked 31st in Vulnerability Management with 1 review while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager is rated 9.0, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager writes "A highly scalable and easy-to-use solution that helps identify vulnerabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Barracuda Vulnerabitlity Manager is most compared with , whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Pentera.
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