We performed a comparison between Forescout Platform and Tenable Security Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, HPE Aruba Networking, Fortinet and others in Network Access Control (NAC)."You can quickly filter your view of devices and zero in on the ones you want using a variety of tools, such as what subnet it is on or what it has been classified as."
"The initial setup is quite simple. It's not too complex or difficult to set up."
"We really like that we get full visibility of devices in the local network."
"Forescout is easy to integrate with a lot of end systems."
"The 802.1X compliance authentication feature of this solution is very good."
"Forescout Platform has granular features and one of the most impressive features is the agentless feature."
"I have noticed that in the last year the license model has changed from licensing the whole appliance to licensing the number of devices. It's more simple for a large installation, or a user to have CounterACT as their peripheral site in the company. It's a good choice to have changed the license policy."
"The most valuable feature of Forescout Platform is that it has everything that Aruba has at significantly less cost."
"The solution is very intuitive and the dashboards are simple to use."
"The scans are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The usability is really good. It's very easy to use and a good platform. It is scalable and very stable. The technical support is fine and the setup is super easy."
"It's a very useful tool."
"The most valuable features in Tenable SC are scanning and analysis."
"I find Tenable SC to be a very scalable product."
"This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives."
"The solution is completely stable and operation is user-friendly."
"The fact that Forescout Platform doesn't have a presence in the South African region is a weakness because of which you can't ask for help from them if you have any problems."
"When we automate an email to send to a user, sometimes it gets blocked, but that has nothing to do with Forescout. It depends on the mail gateway that we use or integrate with."
"When adding what is in scope to a policy, it would be nice if you could select multiple policies instead of one policy at a time to add what is in the scope for network segmentation. I have found that during the install and configuration of the policies that if you want to modify multiple policies or enable multiple policies that you need to define what is in the scope (IP range or segments) one rule at a time. This caused some slow downs when implementing policies."
"Although Forescout manages endpoints and network devices, there is no capability for user management."
"It does not support the TACACS+ protocol."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The licensing costs are quite high. With the amount of hardware we have, we need too many licenses to make the product effective and it's ultimately just too costly."
"They need to handle their Tier 1 cases differently. The biggest negative regarding Forescout is their support. Not having the ability to get instantly transferred to a support engineer for Tier 1 cases is pretty ridiculous."
"We would like to see the inclusion of external IPs and simplified reporting that's easier to deal with"
"Tenable SC could improve by making the creation of the initial reports easier that correspond to our network."
"I think the vendor training provided for Tenable.sc could be a lower price. It's quite expensive for the training."
"Certain aspects require manual effort, such as exporting and analyzing data for our dashboards. The built-in components of the Tenable solution are somewhat clumsy that require external tools. So, this is an area of improvement."
"The web application is not very functional."
"The integration is very good, although it still needs to improve."
"A good plugin editor would be a good additional option for the Security Center."
"The product should provide risk-based vulnerability management."
Forescout Platform is ranked 4th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 69 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews. Forescout Platform is rated 8.4, while Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Forescout Platform writes "We can go granular on each endpoint, quarantine non-compliant machines, and target vulnerabilities through scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". Forescout Platform is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Nozomi Networks and Microsoft Intune, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM and AWS Security Hub.
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