Tenable versus Rapid7
Four times as many customers choose Tenable over Rapid7.1
Why? Tenable’s proven accuracy, comprehensive coverage and unmatched support for your security needs.
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Why customers choose Tenable over Rapid7
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Overall asset coverage
Wide variety of assets: endpoints, network devices, operation technology (OT), identity systems, cloud workloads, web apps
Lacks coverage for operational technology (OT) devices, identity security systems and Azure AD
Exposure management analytics
Tenable One is an exposure management platform that combines integrated risk metrics across vulnerability management, web application security (WAS), cloud, identity, OT and attack surface management
Doesn’t offer OT and identity systems management.
Internal and peer benchmarking
Enables organizations to benchmark themselves internally and against industry peers
Not offered
Prioritization and asset criticality
Vulnerability priority rating (VPR) leverages threat, vulnerability and asset data to predict vulnerability exploitation risk
Confusing and non-intuitive asset criticality scores make it harder to prioritize critical vulnerabilities
Vulnerability intelligence
Provides rich vital context on any given vulnerability including the likelihood of exploitation and potential impact
Lacks a robust vulnerability database with enriched metadata and advanced search/filtering capabilities
PCI DSS compliance
Offers integrated and streamlined vulnerability management and PCI ASV solution to comply with PCI DSS requirements
Not offered by Rapid7
On-prem and cloud coverage
Offers both on-prem (Tenable Security Center) and cloud (Tenable Vulnerability Management) options
Prioritizing cloud-based InsightVM over the on-prem Nexpose6
Partner ecosystem
100% committed to partners, 125 partners and 250 pre-built integrations
Rapid7 sunsetted integrations with BeyondTrust and doesn’t support popular tech like HashiCorp or HCL BigFix7
Patch management and remediation
Fully-fledged patch management integrated with Tenable Vulnerability Management, as well as integration with the leading third-party remediation tools
Not offered by Rapid7, limited support for third-party tools
No. 1 in vulnerability management
IDC ranks Tenable as #1 in worldwide Device Vulnerability Management market share for the sixth consecutive year
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Tenable named a leading force in vulnerability management and top-ranked among 13 vendors in the Growth and Innovation indexes in the Frost Radar, Vulnerability Management, 2023
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