We performed a comparison between IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that it provides a simple English recommendation on actions that you need to take once a vulnerability is discovered."
"The reporting features are good and there are many built-in reports that can be quickly configured."
"It helped with some of the regulatory requirements. It also helped with some of the security analytics and analysis. It was worthwhile from that perspective."
"Scanners and reports using CIS templates ("de-facto" standard, easy to fix and to locate correction tips at documentation), tests against cloud providers, database profiles, several types of telecom devices, and others highly customizable scans."
"We have around 500 virtual machines. Therefore, we conduct monthly scans and open tickets for our developers to address identified vulnerabilities. These scans cover the servers, other network equipment, and appliances in our infrastructure."
"The reports are pretty nice and easy to understand."
"I like its ease of use. It has the script that is pre-built in it, and you just got to know which ones you're looking for."
"The solution is easy to understand for users because instructions are included on the platform."
"I like the fact that it was not expensive. I like that it's user-friendly."
"User friendly and good dashboards."
"The trial version is very good for testing whether it will suit your needs."
"It was not as easy to use. The user-friendliness of it was somewhat lower than what I was expecting. It was also lacking in terms of the ease of the setup. There should be an automatic agent for deployment."
"The interface could be improved by having sub-groups of tests, ultimately making the process of collecting tests faster."
"Building policies is not that easy. There are some things that are turned off by default, for example, displaying values."
"They have added a new Tenable Nessus Expert. That is their new product, which caters to the cloud and everything else. I am assuming that the new features and product enhancements are based on that tool set, but we haven't reviewed it yet."
"Vulnerability recommendations are outdated and not in line with industry standards."
"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."
"We'd like to see the solution embrace more user-friendliness."
"It wasn't very clear how the scripts are running the scans. There's information about the script but it's not straightforward. The script information for each of the plugins should be available, but it doesn't give us straightforward direct information about how it was executed. That needs to be more clear."
"Tenable Nessus could improve by having more steady updates which will reduce the vulnerabilities."
"Lacks some penetration testing-related services."
"I think the reporting templates could be improved with Tenable Nessus."
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IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment is ranked 40th in Vulnerability Management with 3 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment is rated 6.6, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment writes "Worthwhile from the regulatory requirements and analytics perspective, but is expensive and not easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM and Orca Security, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Pentera. See our IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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