We performed a comparison between ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Wiz, SentinelOne and others in Vulnerability Management."The solution helps us figure out vulnerabilities and fix them."
"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."
"Makes ransomware checking and OS auditing and implementation relatively easy."
"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."
"Security is the key number because it can start to scan with a few clicks instead of credits, which is a bit complicated. So simplicity is the first advantage. Then the generated reports are well done and easy to present to management. The quality of the scan is quite good in detecting the severity. The solution has simplicity. Also, it has frequent updates so that is also a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the self-updating engine."
"My favorite part about Nessus is that you can customize the tool to scan exactly what you want. Microsoft releases new patches monthly on Patch Tuesday, and a lot of companies track that date. I set up Nessus for the day after Patch Tuesday to see which devices have already pushed those updates from Microsoft, so we can stay updated."
"With the Tenable Nessus enterprise edition, you have unlimited licenses to scan the device."
"Nessus is good at finding out what nodes you have in place. It will then provide you a report, by node, of what the vulnerabilities are. It does it quickly and stealthfully."
"The user interface is the only drawback of the product."
"Tenable Nessus could improve the reporting by adding some dashboards. The reports are a hassle at this time. Tenable.io has more detailed reports. Having a better dashboard that can show where the vulnerabilities are and be categorized would be helpful. We then could present them to upper management for a deep overview of our network posture which they do not see."
"Remediation needs improvement."
"There should be a possibility to install agents on scanned machines. Tenable IO provides the capability of using local agents to check local problems, but this feature is not there in Tenable Nessus Professional. It would be nice to have something similar in Tenable Nessus Professional. We should have the capability to use local agents installed on the machines to locally check a problem."
"We use credentialed scans. They need more permissions and more changes or settings on Windows and Linux."
"The tool needs to upgrade asset tracking."
"The price and scalability of the solution could improve."
"Vulnerability recommendations are outdated and not in line with industry standards."
"We have had some false positives in the past, which we hope can improve in the future."
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ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus is ranked 21st in Vulnerability Management with 1 review while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus is rated 9.0, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus writes "Helps find vulnerabilities, reduces response time to critical vulnerabilities, and reduces false alerts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus is most compared with Qualys VMDR and Tenable Security Center, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and PortSwigger Burp Suite Enterprise Edition.
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