Tenable Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

VA solutions identify, categorize and prioritize vulnerabilities as well as orchestrate their remediation or mitigation. Their primary focus is vulnerability and security configuration assessments for enterprise risk identification and reduction, and reporting against various compliance standards. VA can be delivered via on-premises, hosted and cloud-based solutions, and it may use appliances and agents.
Core capabilities include:
- Discovery, identification and reporting on device, OS, software vulnerabilities and configuration against security-related criteria
- Establishing a baseline for systems, applications and databases to identify and track changes in state
- Reporting options for compliance, control frameworks and multiple roles
Standard capabilities include:
- Pragmatic remediation prioritization with the ability to correlate vulnerability severity, asset context and threat context that then presents a better picture of true risk for your specific environment
- Guidance for remediating and configuring compensating controls
- Management of scanner instances, agents and gateways
- Direct integration with, or API access to, asset management tools, workflow management tools and patch management tools

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Director of Project Management

Tenable Nessus remains one of the most reliable vulnerability scanners we´ve used. Vulnerability detection coverage is broad and accurate, with frequent plugin updates that keep pace with emerging threats. Asset integration works well across on-prem and hybrid environments. Compliance reporting covers major frameworks out of the box. Some tuning is needed to reduce noise, but overall it delivers solid risk assessment capabilities for the price.

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Manager, IT Security and Risk Management

Tenho experiência diária com a ferramenta Tenable Vulnerability Management na geração de Políticas de Scans. --*Análise de métricas para acompanhamento das vulnerabilidades identificados no ambiente institucional. 
*Acompanhando de suporte/parceiro nas tratativas de problemas e melhorias da ferramenta. 

I have daily experience using the Tenable Vulnerability Management tool to generate Scan Policies. --*Analysis of metrics to monitor vulnerabilities identified in the institutional environment.

*Assisting support/partner in troubleshooting and improving the tool.

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

Tenable Vulnerability Management we only use for agent scans. The setup and administration took a lot of deep understanding of how the product works from deployment and is not very intuitive. When everything works, its great at scanning for vulnerabilities. But when something does not work, it becomes a trial and error scenario. It is like a Russian Doll nightmare to understand the order of how every piece must be setup and functioning. This means that one person will be the subject matter expert and labels can mean absolutely nothing helpful. Another issue is that agent licenses are consumed from the same system grabbing a new IP address via DHCP. This creates a lot of bloated fragmented data, and purging data repositories is practically impossible. 

From a user and training perspective, many of our users resist using the product to learn about vulnerabilities because they just want the reported data on vulnerabilities to fix. The learning curve and setup takes too much time for them. We also struggle to maintain an accurate asset inventory with real ownership details. When an unmanaged agent is enrolled, there is little information for us to track down who enrolled it.

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Tenable is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation and trust. The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organizations to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and everywhere in between. By protecting enterprises from security exposure, Tenable reduces business risk for more than 44,000 customers around the globe.

Tenable√Ç¬Æ is the Exposure Management company. Approximately 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus√Ç¬Æ, Tenable extended its expertise in vulnerabilities to deliver the world√¢‚Ç¨‚Ñ¢s first platform to see and secure any digital asset on any computing platform. Tenable customers include approximately 60 percent of the Fortune 500, approximately 40 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Learn more at tenable.com.

Tenable®️ is the Cyber Exposure company. Approximately 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus®️, Tenable extended its expertise in vulnerabilities to deliver the world’s first platform to see and secure any digital asset on any computing platform. Tenable customers include approximately 60 percent of the Fortune 500, approximately 40 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. 

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Data only helps when the people, process, and technology are aligned.

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Efficient vulnerability management impacted by unstable layout and excessive metrics.

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