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Rating: 8.1 out of 10
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8.1 out of 10

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Business Problems Solved

Tenable.sc, a vulnerability management tool, has proven to be invaluable for organizations in scanning and identifying infrastructure vulnerabilities. With its user-friendly GUI and straightforward setup process, users have found it easy to install and navigate. By connecting their computers and network devices to Tenable.sc, it becomes the go-to vulnerability scanner, allowing for centralized management and discovery of assets on the network. Large organizations especially benefit from the user group privileges feature, as it enables them to assign vulnerabilities to relevant teams for efficient problem resolution.

One of the key use cases of Tenable.sc is its ability to provide comprehensive visibility and vulnerability management across an entire environment. Users report that it effectively resolves visibility issues by consolidating and analyzing vulnerability data from various devices such as servers, PCs, and network and mobile devices. Real-time alerts and the ability to prioritize vulnerabilities further enhance its capabilities in identifying weaknesses in the infrastructure.

Moreover, Tenable.SC is widely used for maintaining compliance with industry regulations. For example, a division of a university utilizes this tool to ensure compliance with PCI DSS, NIST SP 800:171, FERPA, and HIPAA regulations. By collecting and correlating log data, scans, and network traffic, Tenable.SC enhances the security view of data and systems.

Overall, users find Tenable.sc to be an essential tool for vulnerability management, offering consolidated reports on infrastructure loopholes that facilitate easy patching. Its user-friendly interface, distributed architecture, comprehensive coverage, and compliance capabilities make it a valuable asset for organizations striving to enhance their security posture.

Reviews

7 Reviews

Industry leading centralized platform for management of Digital assets which accurately identify, investigate, and prioritize vulnerabilities.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tenable Security Center is primary used in our company as a unified vulnerability management platform to manage multiple Nessus scanners and to integrate with other solution solutions. Tenable Security Center provides centralized platform for management of asset repositories, configuration of scan policies, user management , dashboards and report management. Tenable Security Center provides holistic view of overall security posture in one central location using dashboards and reports with hundreds of built in templates.

Pros

  • Nessus Scan Engine is efficient and accurate, and provides comprehensive vulnerability assessments.
  • Provides visibility and real-time monitoring of digital assets
  • provide a comprehensive view of risks using Vulnerability priority rating (VPR)

Cons

  • Policies are very complex and different component has be be configured separately to create a scan policy
  • Documentation is complex to follow
  • Tenable Security Center is a great product but support needs some improvement to help business user to configure and implement solution as per business requirements.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best use case for Tenable Security Center to use in company is to install Tenable Security Center agent on all the systems to avoid using high privileged credentials in scan policies.

VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Tenable Security Center
3 years of experience

Tenable SC, well worth the cost

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tenable.sc [(formerly SecurityCenter)] is being used for our vulnerability management program across the whole organization. It identifies weaknesses in our infrastructure that need addressed.

Pros

  • Identifies vulnerabilities
  • Measures CIS Compliance
  • Vast majority of reporting capabilities

Cons

  • Big Learning Curve
  • Unable to do AWS or other cloud scanning

Likelihood to Recommend

[Tenable.sc (formerly SecurityCenter)] does very well for internal scanning for vulnerabilities, however it needs to be combined with Tenable.io in order to do cloud scanning.

VU
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Tenable Security Center
2 years of experience

Best VM tool to find the gaps in your infra: Tenable.sc

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tenable.sc provides the complete vulnerability information in my infra. Its best vulnerability management tool to be installed on-premises which can scan the entire infra and give the consolidated reports on the loopholes in infra so that we can patch those. It's so easy to install and GUI is user-friendly.

Pros

  • On-premises solution
  • Customized reports based upon standard industry regularities.
  • Continuous asset discovery
  • Passive scanning

Cons

  • Centralized vulnerability management with sensors.
  • Network health assessment and Incident response.
  • For alerting or notification, it should also support the SMS gateway.

Likelihood to Recommend

Tenable.sc is best suited for those organizations who are not very comfortable with Cloud and want an on-premises solution. If any organization has to follow some guidelines that no data should go to the cloud, in this case, Tenable.sc is a perfect fit as it's installed in the infra Datacenter and no data goes to Cloud. Tenable.sc won't be appropriate for those who have their infra setup on cloud.

CS
Chandan Singh Rathore
Senior Technical Consultant in Information Technology at iValue InfoSolutions Pvt. Ltd. (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Tenable Security Center
2 years of experience
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Maximum EndPoint Visibility with Tenable.sc

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Tenable.sc as the main vulnerability scanner on the system. All the user computers and network-connected computers are connected to the system. We implemented distributed architecture by using Tenable.sc and Nessus together. Tenable.sc works as the central command unit while Nessus controls and collects scanning results from Nessus agents. Distributed system allows you to see and manage all vulnerabilities from one place while it discovers new assets on the network. Therefore, Tenable.sc gives us maximum endpoint visibility and manages them easily. In addition to that, its user group privileges feature is perfect for big organizations with various teams like ours. We can assign the vulnerabilities to the related team to fix problems. Setting up and configuring the architecture is easy and the support team is very helpful on this.

Pros

  • Vulnerability management from one place
  • Maximum endpoint visibility
  • Easy to set up and plan the structure
  • Support desk quickly responses
  • Well-prepared documentation
  • Broad scanning type
  • Supports various compliance standards
  • User groups allows coordination between teams

Cons

  • Tagging and naming all the endpoints takes time

Likelihood to Recommend

When you have an important infrastructure with a network that consists of lots of devices, the vulnerabilities of each one of them become harder. Therefore, Tenable offers a real solution on managing vulnerabilities and maximizing endpoint visibility on the network. Its compliance check scanning is also significant when you are an organization that is externally audited. It is easy to install on all your devices with a small script. Later, Tenable.sc takes care of the agents to keep them updated, control their status, command them to scan, collect the results.

AF
Ahmet Fatih IRKLI
Cyber Security Specialist in Information Technology at TUBITAK (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Tenable Security Center
2 years of experience
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Tenable.sc in higher education

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tenable.SC is used by my division of the university to assist in maintaining PCI DSS, NIST SP 800:171, FERPA and HIPAA compliance. By collecting and correlating our log data and connecting the data found in scans and network traffic, we are able to have a better view of the security of our data and systems.

Pros

  • Correlating log data to security scans.
  • Active and passive scanning.
  • Data reporting.

Cons

  • Easier API access to data.
  • GUI to develop normalization rules (as opposed to scripting in the shell).

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a matter of scale more than anything. Our Tenable.SC implementation works because of the size of our environment. Rolling all of its tools into once license and package makes it easy to connect and work with our data.

VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Tenable Security Center
6 years of experience

Tenable.sc is the best vulnerability management solution in the market

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tenable is our current vulnerability management solution. It is currently used by the IT department, but it is scanning our entire environment. With Tenable we resolved our visibility issues where we did not have a good idea of all devices in our environment. We are also getting a good picture of all vulnerabilities and required patches on all server, network devices, and laptops.

Pros

  • Reporting.
  • Dashboards.
  • It gives you control of your environment.

Cons

  • Tenable could make it easier to report on missing reg key.
  • Tenable can also make it easier to report on os level patches vs application patches.

Likelihood to Recommend

Tenable is well suited in environments where upper-level management is heavily involved and interested in vulnerability management. As it has exceptionally easy to read and understand reports and dashboards for execs to digest and read.

JV
Joevanne Velez
Senior IT Security Engineer in Information Technology at Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Tenable Security Center
7 years of experience
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Best vulnerability manager ever

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tenable SecurityCenter is used by our security team to detect and manage vulnerabilities. This is one of the best vulnerability management solutions. It has comprehensive coverage and visibility and real-time alerts and notifications. It offers the possibility to prioritize the vulnerabilities and consolidate and analyze all vulnerability data across the organization.

Pros

  • Great real-time alerts and notification
  • You can custom and personalize your reports and dashboards
  • Continuously discover and track all events from all critical resources
  • Identify and manage vulnerability
  • Scan very well all critical resources

Cons

  • Improve ticketing module
  • more integration with other products
  • Improve the functionality regarding events from cloud services
  • Improve the documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

Tenable SecurityCenter provides all the technical features you need with limited complexity and easy deployment. The solution creates internal/operational efficiencies and improves compliance & risk management. The product offers the ability to see and track all vulnerabilities across the enterprise in a single view. Also the support from Tenable works great. The dashboards are simple, popular, and useful. The ability for detecting threats and vulnerabilities in the system is excellent. We make scans on all of our critical servers and users' computers. We have great dashboards and present reports to our management. The solution detects false positives better than others.

VU
Verified User
Supervisor in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Tenable Security Center
3 years of experience