Tenable Security Center Valuable Features

François PICHARD - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution and Demand Manager at SFR

The most valuable features of Tenable SC are the reports and the dashboards.

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

The most important features are the dashboard and reporting. The dashboard provides statistics with graphs and bar charts for our management. We can be amazed at how much compliance and patch management are followed; everything can be represented in a single interface.

The solution is connected to our network. We can easily track it with the Tenable Security Center. Without the solution, it's very difficult to track whether or not a new asset is added.

The solution’s configuration is vast. There are so many configurations leading to confusion. It varies from organization to organization based on the Center and new compliance. Suppose some organizations follow the ISO Center. If your organization is a financial organization, it may follow PCS standards. If your organization is healthy enough, it may follow HIPAA standards. You can configure it according to the organization’s compliance. Hence, it's very flexible.

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JoaoManso - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO / IT Consultant at RedShift

The most valuable features are the dashboards and reporting. They have multiple dashboards and reports for different types of details that can be used for different levels of reporting.  This means that by using a high-level report, the top rank in the company can understand what the risk is, as well as how it is violating policy. Similarly, technical people can use a more detailed report to understand what they have to cover and what the criticality of it is.

This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives.

There are multiple types of engines that cover almost any necessity that the company can have for vulnerability and compliance.

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Tenable Security Center
March 2024
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Jahanzeb Feroze Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager Network Security at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

The best feature is the advanced scanning for the network.

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

I like Tenable.sc's analytics and reporting. You can also configure your on-prem network monitors to talk to your Tenable.sc control panel.

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JoaoManso - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO / IT Consultant at RedShift

Tenable SC's most valuable features are the low number of false positives and the strong capability of providing prioritization for the vulnerabilities detected.

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PA
Assistant Manager at Bank of Baroda

The usability is really good. It's very intuitive and any person can use it, you do not have to be an expert in vulnerability analysis. It's very easy to use and a good platform. 

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JA
CISO at BIGBANK AS

The scanning part, the agent part – that's the valuable aspect. The agent and plugin components function reasonably well. But setting up scans, those tasks are working decently. 

There are some logical elements that require consideration to understand their functionality, but they perform their function. 

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DimitrisMakris - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Architect at Injazat Data Systems

Feature-wise, Tenable Security Center is a very fast tool with many dashboards and reports, and it covers all our systems.

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Mohamed Elnahas - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of IT Risk and Security at AWB

The reporting vulnerability is very helpful when you link it with the people who close it with the admin and support team, giving them the criticality to find how to close each item.  And it's up to date with all the vulnerabilities on the market thanks to prompt updates from the cloud.

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Abul Hasnat Md Sofi Ullah - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager - Enterprise & Cyber Security Planning at Robi Axiata Limited

The product is useful for vulnerability management. The Auto-Remediate feature is good. The tool enables centralized vulnerability management.

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

Tenable is the leading product for vulnerability scanning. Most of the customers use Tenable in our region. The customers are happy with the product.

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VictorAkidiva - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at ModusBox

The solution has a lean and easy-to-use interface that is not confusing to first-time users.

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

Tenable Security Center scans networks and gives reports. 

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Abhik Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Capgemini

The most valuable features of Tenable SC are scanning, reporting, dashboards, and automation.

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

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. That requires a lot of flexibility in how we create the policies, so flexibility in policy-creation is a big feature. 

For me, another useful feature of the tool is the dashboard and reporting. That is a big piece for me. The reporting covers most of my needs.

In terms of integrations, so far, from what we've seen and for what we're trying to accomplish, it's been pretty flexible.

The Vulnerability Priority Rating is useful. I run scans on all of our medical equipment and we have stuff that's still Windows 2000. Equipment is so expensive to upgrade and replace. I find a lot of it shows up red for vulnerabilities that we really can't do anything about. The predictive stuff helps prioritize some of those risks. At a high level, it helps narrow that scope. There is still a lot of manual work on my end because, as I mentioned, I really have to know what equipment I'm looking at exactly from a medical standpoint. But it does help narrow the scope.

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

In Tenable SecurityCenter, the Risk-based approach for Prioritizing vulnerability is something that is unique to any vulnerability management platform. Compared to Qualys and Rapid7, Tenable VPR is a special thing that those products don't have. The security over the CVSS and V1 and V2 with the VPR feature help an organization reveal the exact risk of any asset. There might be thousands of vulnerabilities, however, the most impactful vulnerabilities are listed and prioritized in the VPR. 

As tenable SecurityCenter is powered by popular Nessus technology, It is really easy to set up.

The solution is stable and considered as the most solid vulnerability management platform in the industry. 

Tenable.sc provides a wide range of dashboards which makes it easy to grasp the vulnerability profile of the organization. These dashboards allow us to view vulnerabilities in different categories in a simple to understand format. The upgrade to Tenable.sc+ has improved on this as well. Regularity of plugin updates are also exceptional. The speed at which tenable has pushed plugin updates and overall platform updates is great. Also the automatic update capability makes maintenance very simplified. Easy to use User interface. For someone who is not familiar with Tenable.sc, the interface is not difficult to follow along and the documentation makes it very simple for anyone

The solution has a very nice Asset discovery feature that gives you gives you unified visibility of your entire attack surface, As It leverages Nessus Sensors, a mix of active scanners, agents, passive network monitoring, and CMDB integrations to maximize scan coverage across your infrastructure to reduce vulnerability blind spots. This mix of data sensor types helps you track and assess both known and unknown assets and their vulnerabilities

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

The continuous monitoring piece has been very valuable to us. 

The vulnerability priority setting in the software has been very useful to us as it allows us to focus on what's most important. We use it as a piece of our holistic look into our security stance.

The predictive prioritization features are pretty good. They do a lot of research and we trust the research that they do internally. They have knowledge of what's going on with many companies, where we only get a view into what's going on here. So the ability to get best practices out of them as part of this solution, is valuable to us.

The Vulnerability Priority Rating is also pretty good. It's a much more holistic view, instead of being very binary, which we tend to see. It lets us focus on what's most important to us, especially because it goes across many products that we have. It's good in that we see how each of these stacks up and where our priorities should be. Should they be in Cisco, should they be in Microsoft, should they be in Linux? That's very useful to us as well. We'd love to do all the work right now, but we have to pick some type of priority in terms of what we're going to focus on, before we focus on the less vulnerable items.

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DimitrisMakris - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Architect at Injazat Data Systems

The most valuable features of the solution are the dashboards and speed of the test.

Tenable.sc is user-friendly.

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ON
Security Engineer at Protego trust

The product gives us reports whenever we setup a scan. 

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AB
Senior Partner / Co-Founder at SKYTEK

The dashboard is a valuable feature. So is the scanning, which is based on the nexus, and the scripts. The solution offers an extremely limited margin of error, of obtaining false positives within it. These are its strengths. 

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SB
Deputy General Manager at STBL

The solution is completely stable and operation is user-friendly. 

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

The most valuable feature of this solution is the vulnerability assessment. Also, the scanning and reporting are very straightforward.

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

One of the most valuable features is their distributed scan model for allotting engines to work together as a pool and handle multiple scans at once, across multiple environments. Automatic scanning distribution is a distinguishing feature of their toolset.

Also, the ability to trend data back as far back as we have disk space for, is helpful.

Finally, the ability to write custom audit files is a really helpful and useful feature. That's something that not a lot of assessment companies have gotten right. There's room for improvement, but literally being able to take the text file, open it up, and adjust the changes, write your own regex and write your own checks, is huge.

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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 most valuable feature is its ability to scan for vulnerabilities in our important systems, networks devices, and so on.

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

One valuable feature is the Assurance Report Card. with the Assurance Report Card, we are able to give our overview about security posters in just a glance. And with a report to cut this we can quickly, our executives can quickly consume that without going into the difficulties of the vulnerability issue.

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Abu Imran - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at Nhq Distribution Ltd

Compared to other products, the most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and ability to provide visibility over scan results while providing many templates to users, making it a helpful tool.

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

Compliance and vulnerability scans are most valuable. Compliance scan helps in validating how our teams are complying, and vulnerability scan helps in future-proofing. Its vulnerability detection is accurate.

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

The solution is very intuitive as are the dashboards. It provides good visibility to the vulnerabilities in the company. 

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

The feature we've liked most recently was being able to take the YARA rules from FireEye and put them into Tenable's scan for the most recent SolarWinds exploit. That was really useful.

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Arjit Yadav - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Engineer at Techsa Services

The tool gives us fewer false positives. Compared to its competitors, the solution’s reports are more accurate.

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TS
Intent Manager at Agaya Holdings (Private) Limited

The solution serves as a good tool and is very user-friendly as well. It has many features. We are able to identify vulnerabilities in our systems, and ways to fix them with the solution’s help.

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

We really love the Security Center dashboard. It performs vulnerability scanning and then outputs vulnerability data. When you are working with one, two, three, up to 10 IT pieces of equipment, managing the vulnerability data would just be fine, but when you are managing assets across an organization of 10,000+ employees, you have a really hard time normalizing those vulnerability data. The dashboard helps us out to map what things need to be prioritized, what is our current threat landscape and what would be the latest threats that we have in our network.

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CV
Network Security Analyst at Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration

The 'raw syslog' search functions are fairly nice for tracking down debug info from an event, but it's usefulness is extremely low when compared with ArcSight in terms of its usefulness in network event investigations. SecurityCenter's strongest focus seems to be its vulnerability scanning, but I'm told I should be able to use it to replace ArcSight, and from experience with both products, I know that's not the case.  To be honest, if my mission were more aligned with our other team's goals, I might like SecurityCenter a lot more than I do; but as is, it's like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

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SD
Cyber Security Expert at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.

Tenable's most valuable features are the credential scan, vulnerability reports, and vulnerability ratings (VPR).

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

The UI, the user interface, is really, really good. It's really simple. I started with no prior experience in vulnerability management and picked it up in less than a day, pretty quickly. It's very intuitive.

Their overall cost of service is pretty good. 

I've worked with my CS manager and with them a lot, and I'd say every case I've opened, they've reached out to me within two hours. They're pretty prompt in their responses and overall the company is really easy to get ahold of.

Scaling the solution is very easy.

The stability of the product is pretty good.

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HL
Security Administrator at TOPNET

Tenable.sc's best features are the availability model, accident management, and scoring. It also gives fewer false positives than its competitors.

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

It's a very useful tool.

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MN
Tech consultant at select softwares

The dashboard and the templates used to delvelop reports are awesome.

It is easy to run, scan, and categorize an asset as and when needed. The same asset can be present in two or more groups based on the identification.

This solution can now be deployed in cloud setups.

This solution provides a good reporting system and with a reasonably good level of third-party integration. McAfee has leveraged this capability beautifully in its Policy Orchestrator.

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Rafael Ustariz - PeerSpot reviewer
IT security consultant at Netready LATAM

The most valuable features in Tenable SC are scanning and analysis.

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

I found the dashboard features very useful. It made it easy to track remediation progress. I could publish dashboards to remediation teams and track the progress on the dashboards.

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

Tenable SC is good for reporting and alerting. The filtering feature is also very valuable.

Its integration with multiple vendors is quite good. It can be integrated with SIEM solutions and PAM solutions such as Thycotic, which is very helpful.

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

The scans are the most valuable aspect of this solution. The reporting isn't so good but I use scans the most. The reporting needs a lot of work on the template. 

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

This solution is very customizable compared to everything else I've seen on the market, so you can easily customize it to suit your needs. There are a lot of templates you can use and you can install it pretty quickly so in one hour you can have your scanner up and running.

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Buyer's Guide
Tenable Security Center
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Tenable Security Center. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.