We performed a comparison between Acunetix and Tenable Vulnerability Management 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."It can operate both as a standalone and it can be integrated with other applications, which makes it a very versatile solution to have."
"The automated approach to these repetitive discovery attempts would take days to do manually and therefore it helps reduce the time needed to do an assessment."
"It's very user-friendly for the testing teams. It's very easy for them to understand things and to fix vulnerabilities."
"For us, the most valuable aspect of the solution is the log-sequence feature."
"The solution is highly stable."
"Our developers can run the attacks directly from their environments, desktops."
"The most valuable feature of Acunetix is the UI and the scan results are simple."
"There is a lot of documentation on their website which makes setting it up and using it quite simple."
"It is a very, very user-friendly tool...The setup is easy"
"Tenable.io, in particular, is quite a powerful product. It looks at your traditional environment, which is pretty much anything that is on-premises, and it also goes a step ahead and covers your modern assets, which is anything that is currently sitting in the cloud. You get complete visibility of your entire environment and tech operation. The ability to give you visibility across the entire tech surface is one of the biggest advantages that Tenable.io has."
"The solution is easy to use and configuration is smooth with no complexities."
"I would rate Tenable's dashboards and reporting capabilities for illustrating security posture a nine out of ten, with ten being the best."
"The solution's most valuable feature is providing a single pane of visibility on all the infrastructure and its status."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"A new user can easily understand the workflow, even if they are creating users for other divisions and the user is a beginner."
"The initial setup is straightforward so long as your infrastructure, components, and networks are in place."
"The vulnerability identification speed should be improved."
"The only problem that they have is the price. It is a bit expensive, and you cannot change the number of applications for the whole year."
"I had some issues with the JSON parameters where it found some strange vulnerabilities, but it didn't alert the person using it or me about these vulnerabilities, e.g., an error for SQL injection."
"It should be easier to recreate something manually, with the manual tool, because Acunetix is an automatic tool. If it finds something, it should be easier to manually replicate it. Sometimes you don't get the raw data from the input and output, so that could be improved."
"Acunetix needs to improve its cost."
"The jargon used makes it difficult for project managers to understand the issues, and the technical explanations used make it difficult for developers to understand issues. These things should be simplified much more. That would be very helpful for us when explaining to them what needs to be fixed. The report output needs to be simplified."
"While we do have it integrated with other solutions, it could still offer more integrations."
"Tools that would allow us to work more efficiently with the mobile environment, with Android and iOS."
"The stability has room for improvement."
"The one drawback that we have found is the reports."
"The solution must provide penetration testing."
"We'd like to see a bit more user-friendliness."
"It can have more integration."
"Users get confused between VPR and CVSS ratings."
"The only drawback of the solution is that it is expensive."
"The solution must be promoted more in the market."
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Acunetix is ranked 15th in Vulnerability Management with 26 reviews while Tenable Vulnerability Management is ranked 2nd in Vulnerability Management with 39 reviews. Acunetix is rated 7.6, while Tenable Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Acunetix writes "Fantastic reporting features hindered by slow scanning ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Vulnerability Management writes "Discovers vulnerabilities and integrates well with other solutions". Acunetix is most compared with OWASP Zap, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, HCL AppScan and Fortify WebInspect, whereas Tenable Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Security Center, Tenable Nessus, Qualys VMDR, Amazon Inspector and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management. See our Acunetix vs. Tenable Vulnerability Management report.
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