We performed a comparison between RiskIQ Illuminate and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Mandiant, Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro and others in Attack Surface Management (ASM)."The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
"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."
"It's scalable."
"It allows me to prioritize efforts and utilize effective technical resources."
"The results are not that bad, but the key selling point is that it is an affordable tool set."
"It gives you an unlimited IP scan."
"Tenable Nessus streamlines the process of scanning for our organization."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the installation of Tenable which is incredibly easy."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
"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."
"The reports should be improved in Tenable Nessus. For example, when you are auditing compliance with CIS standards. It provides very poor reports."
"They need more flexible pricing."
"The product must be more comprehensive."
"Vulnerability recommendations are outdated and not in line with industry standards."
"In Nessus Professional, the main drawback was that we could have a single-user login password. So it could be better in terms of security."
"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."
"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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RiskIQ Illuminate is ranked 13th in Attack Surface Management (ASM) while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. RiskIQ Illuminate is rated 0.0, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of RiskIQ Illuminate writes "Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". RiskIQ Illuminate is most compared with Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Recorded Future and ZeroFOX, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Pentera.
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