Forescout Platform vs. Tenable Vulnerability Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Forescout Platform
Score 7.2 out of 10
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Forescout Technologies headquartered in San Jose actively defends the Enterprise of Things by identifying, segmenting and enforcing compliance of every connected thing. Forescout boasts a widely deployed, enterprise-class platform at scale across IT, IoT, and OT managed and unmanaged devices. Forescout arms customers with device intelligence, in order to allow organizations across every industry to classify risk, detect anomalies and quickly remediate cyberthreats without disruption of critical…N/A
Tenable Vulnerability Management
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Vulnerability management specialist Tenable offers their cloud application and container security platform Tenable Web App Scanning (formerly Tenable.io), a vulnerability management tool that emphasizes visibility of web applications, automatic scanning, and a unified view of cloud infrastructure and possible inconsistencies indicating a vulnerability.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Forescout Platform
Chose Forescout Platform
It was able to relieve us of some of the duties performed by the operations team as it made it easy to do those tasks. It allows us to view devices that are connected to our network and segregate those that are not company owned and also account for guests' logins as are signed …
Chose Forescout Platform
Better intergration with patch management tools. Forescount Platfform (CounterAct) is easily compatible with diverse network infrastructure to offer better service and efficiently ensure seamless operations. Its automation capabilities have also enabled us to depend less on the …
Chose Forescout Platform
Forescout Platform (CounterACT) is capable to perform intelligent device classifications which able to group and segmentize the assets effectively. Besides, the classification techniques can be customized according to the organization requirements. With agentless deployment, …
Chose Forescout Platform
When I got here, they already had this product in place, so I was not part of the final decision, but after using this for a couple of years, I can say that it was an intelligent decision for the business!!
Chose Forescout Platform
Heterogeneous compatibility with switches and other network infrastructure setup is a major advantage. There are many companies where there is a legacy network combined with different OEM deployed. Integration of network devices like switches, FW, routers, AP's gives complete …
Chose Forescout Platform
We selected CounterACT because it didn't require 802.1x and it didn't require any switch upgrades. To use 802.1x we would have to assume all endpoints are guilty until proven innocent. With CounterACT we can detect quickly if endpoints are not compliant and remediate without …
Chose Forescout Platform
CounterACT was the product that was able to do exactly what we were looking to accomplish and that was to block non-company owned devices from connecting to our network based on our criteria. It will allow us to decide if a blocked device should be allowed on our network …
Tenable Vulnerability Management
Chose Tenable Vulnerability Management
I think Tenable and Qualys have a lot of similarities, I continue to go back to Tenable because of my familiarity and comfort level with it. I've also used a company called SecurityMetrics which has vulnerability scanning included but it is not as comprehensive as Tenable.
Chose Tenable Vulnerability Management
Tenable.io was a clear winner in regards to features and capability when compared to OpenVAS, Qualys, and Nexpose. OpenVAS is a fork of an older version of Nessus Scanner(from Tenable) and has been updated over the years to a great free alternative. It takes a lot more manual …
Chose Tenable Vulnerability Management
Skipping since I don't have too much familiarity with similar products.
Chose Tenable Vulnerability Management
Tenable.io has a comparable set of features, with excellent support and a competitive price. After less than desirable experiences with another company, we moved to Tenable and haven't looked back since.
Chose Tenable Vulnerability Management
Rapid7 is actually very comparable to Tenable.io in terms of automated scans, automated reporting, internal and external scanners, and remediation of external scans. But for less than the cost of a Rapid7 solution that comes with internal scans only, I received more hosts …
Features
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Threat Intelligence
Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Tenable Vulnerability Management
8.4
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6% above category average
Network Analytics00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Threat Recognition00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Vulnerability Classification00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Automated Alerts and Reporting00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Threat Analysis00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Threat Intelligence Reporting00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Automated Threat Identification00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Vulnerability Management Tools
Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Product A and Product B
Forescout Platform
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Tenable Vulnerability Management
8.8
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8% above category average
IT Asset Realization00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Authentication00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Configuration Monitoring00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Web Scanning00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Vulnerability Intelligence00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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Support Rating
8.0
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8.8
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
I strongly recommend using it in networks where many machines enter, it is essential to have a capture of all ids, mac etc to prevent and detect unauthorized machines.We are in the technological era and there is a lot of technological robotization looking for weak systems to enter.Invest in greater security and that does not happen to you.
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Tenable.io is a cost effective Internal and External scanner. The Internal scanner came with a .ova, so it was very simple and quick to deploy it into our ESXi environment. It has a cloud-based dashboard for management and the internal scanner is configured to auto-update from Tenable.io. The license came with 4 External PCI scans (with remediation) a year.
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Pros
  • Great in monitoring what applications versions are running and on what devices.
  • Good identification of unmanaged devices and segregating them.
  • Endpoint visibility.
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  • Wide range of capabilities that can be customized to fit each user's environment and needs
  • Provides high-quality data and insights into detected vulnerabilities
  • Great customer support
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Cons
  • Grow the Forescout community to help in addressing concern for a larger audience via channels
  • More training and demos for latest FS versions released
  • GUI can be made more interactive and aesthetic in appearance
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  • Configuration is not always intuitive, but the comprehensive training and documentation comes to the rescue.
  • The mix of classic and beta UIs currently is confusing and we find the classic UI is actually better.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We like to renew tenable each year we have had it so far.
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Usability
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Overall it is good, it took a little while to understand it and figure things out but once you have a good grasp on it then, it is very good.
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Support Rating
They are prompt in their response with a complete resolution once they have identified the problem. Other OEM's generally give stop-gap arrangements and then later come with new upgrade versions. This gives downtime tasks to customers often, which isn't appreciated. Given the criticality of this software, their support is prompt.
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Support is usually really great at walking you through any steps you need to take when you get stuck on something. There are a few false positives and errors that have come up over the years that required their help to get through. Unfortunately, the steps required to diagnose some problems are more tedious than I think should be necessary. (IE: SQL instances can throw errors that clog up your logs because one plugin affects it in a certain way. The process to diagnose this is to watch timestamps of plugins in a log while monitoring the SQL logs at the same time and using your best guess as to what is causing it.)
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Alternatives Considered
CounterACT was the product that was able to do exactly what we were looking to accomplish and that was to block non-company owned devices from connecting to our network based on our criteria. It will allow us to decide if a blocked device should be allowed on our network temporarily
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I think Tenable and Qualys have a lot of similarities, I continue to go back to Tenable because of my familiarity and comfort level with it. I've also used a company called SecurityMetrics which has vulnerability scanning included but it is not as comprehensive as Tenable.
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Return on Investment
  • We have been able to achieve deeper levels of security.
  • It has been able to counter most threats through the detection of rogue devices and segregating them.
  • Fostered accountability as guests' devices is signed in by employees so as to track activities they may be undertaking.
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  • We're able to mitigate over 90% of our vulnerability risk without too much effort. It helps find where automated patching fails and we can plan a fix from the findings.
  • A side effect of our scanning reveals new devices on our network that aren't cleared to be.
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