Tenable Security Center Primary Use Case

Md. Shahriar Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity and Compliance Lead Engineer at Banglalink

We use Tenable Security Center for vulnerability assessment purposes within our security infrastructure. The solution helps identify management-related issues and automatically forwards the ticket to our stakeholders, as well as an auto-alert mechanism. Additionally, we have integrated it with our SI solution.

The primary use case involves automated scheduled scans. We have established an asset inventory, and there is a scheduled quarterly automated scan. This process sends the results, thereby reducing manual tasks. The more automation we implement, the fewer errors occur, resulting in a faster and more efficient process.

We also use it for continuous network monitoring. We scan network devices such as Cisco routers, load balancers, and WAN devices. If any suspicious network activity arises, the system saves the results.

Our organization also uses Power BI. There are a lot of scripts that are already integrated to check compliance within the organization. We aim for at least 75% of the benchmark. Tenable's solution assists in representing the level of compliance achieved, whether it be 70%, 80%, 90%, or 95%. We have installed agents on various server types, and adding them to the scan does not require manual credential entry each time. The solution provides comprehensive results on the dashboard for each service by simply clicking on the play button.

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JoaoManso - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO / IT Consultant at RedShift

We are a reseller and Tenable SC is one of the products that we implement for our clients.

The primary use case is to check for compliance against a specific framework, like NIST, CIS, or something similar. Tenable will check compliance on the assets against that specific framework and give that visibility to the technical staff, top management, and the risk management team. In turn, this will enable them to evaluate the risk that they are facing for non-compliance issues.

The second use case is helping the technical staff that handles updates and upgrades to the operating system. It means that they have the most urgent upgrades that they need to cover the high-risk vulnerabilities that can be found and exploited.

Beyond this, Tenable SC assists with malware detection and similar functionality.

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Jahanzeb Feroze Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager Network Security at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

We use Tenable.sc to conduct vulnerability scanning for our networks, and applications, and for the data protection we need in our environment. We are customers of Tenable and I'm the assistant manager of network security.

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Yusuf-Hashmi - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director - Group Head - IT Security (CISO) at Jubilant Organosys Ltd., India, Leading Chemical M

Tenable.sc customers use when they need a complete in-house vulnerability management environment. It enables you to identify the applications and infrastructure within your organization, giving you greater control over your environment. Tenable.sc isn't on the cloud. Tenable.sc is deployed on a private cloud and used when regulations prevent keeping things on a public cloud. Two of my customers are using it currently. 

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JoaoManso - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO / IT Consultant at RedShift

I primarily use Tenable SC for vulnerability management i.e. to detect vulnerabilities in servers, workstations, and some IoT, produce, prioritize, and validate a mitigation strategy, and keep the mitigation on track so the CISO can detect changes in the posture. 

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François PICHARD - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution and Demand Manager at SFR

I am using Tenable SC to detect vulnerabilities, and we are in the process of testing the solution.

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JA
CISO at BIGBANK AS

We use it to scan both our workstations and servers for vulnerabilities. This includes vulnerabilities related to software, operating systems, and package vulnerabilities. It helps us gain an overview of our organization's security status, which in turn guides our patching strategies and decision-making. 

We use agents for scanning and authenticated logins, but we do not utilize the scanner part that performs web scanning.

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DimitrisMakris - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Architect at Injazat Data Systems

My company uses Tenable Security Center to detect and manage our environment's vulnerabilities.

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Asief Mohammed - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Consultant at Simpra advanced technology

Our customers use the product for scanning their network for vulnerabilities.

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VictorAkidiva - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at ModusBox

We use the solution for patch and vulnerability management. We scan our critical systems, keep track of any exploitable vulnerabilities, and prioritize their remediation efforts in terms of patching. 

In the future, we hope to extend the solution to our cloud services. We are moving to Azure Cloud and planning to start a DevOps initiative that might include container deployment. We know Tenable has the CI/CD pipeline security support so we will seek that solution when we are ready. 

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Buthainah Al-Balharith - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Security Engineer at Direct Choice

We use the product to scan threats and conduct risk assessments for NCA. 

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Abhik Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Capgemini

We use Tenable SC for internal vulnerability scans with agents, and agentless scanning in the cloud. For example, we're scanning the AMI in the cloud and making it part of the base image.

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JS
Medical Device Cybersecurity Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I'm the one who scans and performs assessments on clinical and medical equipment in our environment. I manage the clinical endpoint devices: MRI systems, bedside monitoring, Alaris pumps, fusion pumps, CTUs, EEGs, EKGs, wireless defibrillators, and a lot of IP cameras that are part of operation room labs. My colleague handles all the regular enterprise IT, database servers, etc. From a scanning standpoint, I do everything from discovery scanning to full-credential auditing and anything and everything in between. That's just for the medical space in a 24/7 production medical environment.

We're also using a bit of the Passive Vulnerability Scanner and, eventually, I want to get to using the agents, but we haven't gotten to that stage yet.

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OniRahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

We primarily use the solution for vulnerability scanning across the network . 

A few months back, I conducted a training on Tenable SecurityCenter for a Reputed Bank. I had to teach the Usage and features and then show them how the scan things work and how results can help analyze and report. also helped developing some use case like Scheduling scan and email that to specific users for mitigation, Generating Alert for particular level of vulnerability etc.

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JD
Sr. Principal IT Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case is compliance for our audits, for our customers. We were exposed in that we were not meeting contractual obligations.

We are monitoring our infrastructure: servers, switches, storage, routers, SAN storage, operating systems, and applications to the extent that the tool is able to see into them. We use it to hit the high ones like Adobe or Microsoft Office and the like. Some of the more niche products that we use may not be in their inventory of vulnerabilities.

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Trirong Phuaythip - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Consultant at Westcon-Comstor

We use the product as a security tool for VMs and web applications.

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DimitrisMakris - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Architect at Injazat Data Systems

The solution is being used to assess Windows servers and ESXi servers, and VMware ESXi.

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LadislavSolc - PeerSpot reviewer
Enthusiastic Explorer at Target Five

I use the solution in my company for vulnerability risk assessment, and we are quite happy with it.

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ON
Security Engineer at Protego trust

The solution is a vulnerability scanner that helps us check if we are covered on the audit and compliance aspect. It provides us with critical alerts in case we encounter any vulnerabilities. The tool also helps us with patching. It also gives us notifications whenever certificates like SSL expire.

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SB
Deputy General Manager at STBL

We work as System Integrators and my team has experience in using Tenable Security Center. We provide solutions to work for various customers in BFSI, Telcos, and the Government sector. 

We use this solution mainly for vulnerability assessment and management. With the scanning feature set, we do the reporting and provide easy operation and implementation for our customers. 

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SM
Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

In our organization, we only use Nessus for vulnerability assessment. We are using Tenable.sc and Nessus as threat scanners.

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JK
IT Security Specialist at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Vulnerability assessment and compliance auditing are our primary use cases. That includes baseline configuration scanning. We use it to protect everything in the enterprise environment: servers, workstations, pretty much all operating systems, networking gear. We are doing cloud and we are doing some IOT. We are not using their web application scanning tool.

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Daniel_Ndiba - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager - Cyber & Cloud Security at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case is to perform vulnerability assessments across the entire network.

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AN
Senior Manager, IT Security at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Basically it reviews our threat landscape vulnerability. So, we just want to be sure that we check compliance in terms of our configuration and compliance to our policies. But, the key is to make sure that we are not exposed to vulnerabilities that can be exploited. So, it's more of just securing our threat landscape.

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SP
Assistant manager IT security at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use Tenable SC for compliance and vulnerability scans. 

We are fully updated in terms of the version, and we have its latest version.

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Pedro Brandao - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Officer at SEG Automotive Germany, GmbH

We use Tenable for security. I'm an information security officer and we are customers of Tenable. 

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Mohamed-Helmy - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Security Officer at MIDBANK

We use Tenable to scan all of our environments and plugins for vulnerabilities. Tenable helps us discover network vulnerabilities to threats and piracy. 

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TG
Program Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

At work we use the enterprise version of Tenable, Tenable.io, and I also use Tenable.sc — which I refer to as SecurityCenter — for local scanning.

I use Tenable SecurityCenter every day to scan our entire environment for vulnerabilities. I use a local license during the discovery process for penetration testing. So I'll do an en masse scan, and then also do a scan with Tenable to scan for IPs and vulnerabilities.

User-wise, with Tenable SecurityCenter, there's different roles. We have security analysts, admin, etc. I'd say there's probably four or five different roles from people that can just go in and view. Security analysts can upload manual scans and create dashboards and download reports. Then administrators can create accounts, assign roles and responsibilities, and things like that.

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Arjit Yadav - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Engineer at Techsa Services

The tool helps with vulnerability assessment and vulnerability management.

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TS
Intent Manager at Agaya Holdings (Private) Limited

We use the solution for creating passwords and security scanning purposes.

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BJ
Information Security Expert at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

I primarily use this solution for vulnerability assessment on the assets that we have. This includes servers, network equipment, appliances, routers, firewalls, and switches. 

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CV
Network Security Analyst at Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration

I use SecurityCenter currently to investigate daily network security events from reports I receive. Our network support team uses it to track, manage, and remediate system vulnerabilities. It works well for the latter, not so much for the former.

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SD
Cyber Security Expert at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.

I primarily use Tenable for scanning and reporting.

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AG
Information Security Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Essentially we use the solution to monitor hard devices on a network with it. That includes laptops, desktops, tablets, et cetera. I'm just using that to make sure that all of our patching is up to date.

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ME
Senior Cyber Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Tenable SC can be used in any company for vulnerability management life cycle.

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DA
Technical Implementation Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case for Tenable SC is its vulnerability scanning capability. 

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MN
Tech consultant at select softwares

I use this solution to perform vulnerability assessments and then patch my systems using third-party tools.

The vulnerability scan is pretty fast and once you give it the right access privileges on the target system, you get very clear and precise details of the vulnerabilities.

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Rafael Ustariz - PeerSpot reviewer
IT security consultant at Netready LATAM

I am using Tenable SC for vulnerability management and for the dashboards.

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MF
Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1-10 employees

In my previous company, we were using both Tenable IO and Tenable SC. We had the on-prem and the cloud versions. IO was a cloud version, and SC was on-prem.

In my new company, they do use Tenable, but I'm not part of that team. They have the latest version.

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BT
Information Security Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We had a requirement to connect multiple branches into one console. We installed Nessus at multiple locations and then connected Nessus. We did the service scan and got the report on the central site with Tenable SC.

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HL
Security Administrator at TOPNET

I primarily use Tenable.sc to search availability and for our workstation server and data center.

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MS
IT Consultant - Microsoft Design and Implementation at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case is for vulnerability assessment of our internal network.

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it_user1395987 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I'm a pre-sales engineer and we are resellers of Tenable.

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