We performed a comparison between Tenable.sc and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Tenable.sc provides accurate vulnerability detection, compliance, and asset discovery, while Wiz prioritizes risks and offers context in the cloud environment. Tenable.sc has a user-friendly interface, while Wiz has easy-to-read dashboards and agentless scanning. Tenable.sc needs to work on its penetration testing, pricing, reporting, integrations, and accuracy of vulnerability assessment. Users have struggled with support difficulties. On the other hand, Wiz requires preventive controls, refined reporting, customizable dashboards, improved risk assessment, more frequent scans, and better tenant management.
Service and Support: Tenable.sc's customer service has received both positive and negative feedback, as some customers have appreciated the assistance provided while others have faced delays. In contrast, Wiz's customer service has been praised for its exceptional technical support and accessibility to account representatives.
Ease of Deployment: Tenable.sc may take longer and needs integration, while Wiz is a low-maintenance SaaS. Tenable.sc is easy to implement, but Wiz offers immediate value and visibility.
Pricing: Tenable.sc's pricing varies depending on the number of IP addresses scanned and additional costs for advanced support. Opinions on pricing differ. Wiz's pricing is deemed fair and straightforward, but there are concerns about potential price increases and lack of clarity in pricing. Wiz's pricing is viewed as reasonable given its capabilities and features in comparison to Tenable.sc.
ROI: Tenable.sc helps save on manpower costs and ensures a positive return on investment. On the other hand, Wiz focuses on improving asset management, container image maintenance, and compliance monitoring, and continues to add new features.
Comparison Results: Tenable.sc is the preferred choice over Wiz due to its comprehensive features, accurate vulnerability detection, and user-friendly interface. Tenable.sc offers advanced scanning, prioritization, and automation that make it easier for users to track remediation progress and validate compliance. Although Wiz is commended for its ability to provide context and prioritize risks in the cloud environment, users have identified areas for improvement, such as the need for preventive controls and more refined reporting capabilities.
"Tenable Security Center scans networks and gives reports."
"Tenable SC's most valuable features are the low number of false positives and the strong capability of providing prioritization for the vulnerabilities detected."
"Has a great advanced scanning feature."
"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."
"Tenable also helps us to focus resources on the vulnerabilities that are most likely to be exploited. And since it is continuously updated, it allows us to reevaluate quickly if there are new vulnerabilities found..."
"What is useful to me is being able to fulfill very customized scanning policies. In the clinical environment, because of vendor control, we can't perform credential-vulnerability scanning. And network scans, which I've done before, can cause a lot of impact. Being able to create very customized policies to be able to routinely scan and audit our clinical networks, while simultaneously not causing impact, is important to us."
"The most important features are the dashboard and reporting. The dashboard provides statistics with graphs and bar charts for our management."
"The tool gives us fewer false positives. Compared to its competitors, the solution’s reports are more accurate."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"For downloading reports, we have to go to the scan and then we have to go to the reports and download the Excel or CSV or PDF. I think these menus and clicks can be minimized."
"The GUI could be improved to have all concerns and priorities use the same GUI, allowing them to see all tickets, assign vulnerabilities, and assign variation failures to each member of their team."
"The solution is expensive."
"There's a lot of information being streamed out of the reports. What would be nice, and maybe we just haven't found it, would be more of an executive-type view. We still expect it to collect all this information, but we would like a feature that would allow us to show it to an executive or a director or someone like that and give them some type of high-level overview but not get into the nitty-gritty."
"The biggest issue I have with the solution is when I'm using the scanning it picks up the original DNS of that device. That means, before we image it and actually change the DNS to something within our company structure, it'll just be random numbers and letters and Tenable will stick to that DNS for a long time."
"Tenable SC can improve by making it easier to create complicated reports and have more effectiveness in the remediation area for comparison between the scans."
"Additional costs are associated with using the solution, as additional scanners are required for different endpoints connected to the Tenable Security Center. If Tenable Security Center could extract information from these scanners automatically rather than manually, it would enhance user-friendliness for customers."
"The web application scanning area can be improved."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews while Wiz is ranked 4th in Vulnerability Management with 11 reviews. Tenable Security Center is rated 8.2, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Tenable Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM and Forescout Platform, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Lacework. See our Tenable Security Center vs. Wiz report.
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