# Fortra VM Reviews **Vendor:** Fortra **Category:** [Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/risk-based-vulnerability-management) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 71 ## About Fortra VM Fortra VM is a proactive, risk-based vulnerability management solution that helps organizations identify, assess, and prioritize security weaknesses across their infrastructure. Beyond basic scanning, Fortra VM provides contextual risk prioritization through its Security GPA rating system, Peer Insight for industry benchmarking, and threat ranking to identify exploitation vectors that are used in real world attacks. Conveniently delivered via SAAS, Fortra VM creates easily understood reporting for efficient and effective remediation. ## Fortra VM Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **reliability** of Fortra VM, consistently praising its performance and excellent customer support over the years. (2 reviews) - Users highly value the **excellent customer support** provided by Fortra VM, enhancing their overall experience since 2020. (1 reviews) - Users value the **data security features** of Fortra VM, enhancing their ability to manage and remediate vulnerabilities effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find Fortra VM to be **lightweight and user-friendly** , making their experience enjoyable and efficient since 2020. (1 reviews) - Users value the **efficient incident management** of Fortra VM, enabling effective assessment and remediation of security vulnerabilities. (1 reviews) - Insights (1 reviews) - Reporting Features (1 reviews) - Risk Management (1 reviews) - Scanning Efficiency (1 reviews) - Security (1 reviews) ## Fortra VM Reviews ### 1. Solid platform and service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Judiciary | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2025 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** We have been using Fortra VM for almost 9 years now and am very pleased with the platform and service. We have compared the results of the security vulnerability scans to other product scans and confirmed Fortra VM is a great value for us. Our teams use the security vulnerability scans to assess our endpoint posture and the reports help our teams narrow down on where we need to perform remediations and address critical and high risk findings. **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** To be honest, I can't recall anything I dislike about the platform and service. **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fortra VM compliments our external CISA sponsored vulnerability scans. In addition, it is our primary internal vulnerability scanner. ### 2. the vm has great features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** suraj t. | security analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** i am thrilled with that and I've been using it since 2020 it was very lightweight for me and their customer support is too good **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** i have no problem with that now and when I got stuck I will inform you **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** it provides scans that takes take less time ### 3. Easy to use vulnerability scanning tool with a great dashboard and tracking tool. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** I like how the dashboard and active view consolidates and prioritizes the findings. This and the notes features keep our team on the same page while remediating vulnerabilities. **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** Currently, my biggest concern is that there is no way to get debugging or command-line access to the scanners. The best would be a remote console into the scanners from the dashboard that would allow us to do things like connectivity tests in a customer's environment without having access to their network itself. A debugging view of what a scanner is doing during a scan would also be beneficial, possibly access to a log file from a scan's run to better help us troubleshoot failed scans or failures to discover anything. Finally, I continue to find broken links and references to documentation that's moved throughout places like frontline's site, AWS marketplace, and the dashboard itself. **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us better understand customer environments and find vulnerabilities that we can assist them in remediating. The dashboard and reports also help us show the customer the improvements we are making to their organization. **Official Response from Margaret Harrison:** > Hello. Thank you for providing valuable feedback. We are pleased to hear that you and your team leverage Frontline to keep your organization’s networks secure. Frontline is designed to be intuitive to enable informed prioritization of remediation efforts. Thank you for identifying areas that need improvement. Our teams work hard every day to ensure we provide relevant, up-to-date information for our users. ### 4. Good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** The UI is good overall. There are suggestions on how to fix each detected issues. **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** The active view page does not seem accurate. I correct issues on scans, then re-scan, and it goes away on the new scan, but it does not ever leave the active view for some reason. The UI is good overall, but if you're looking at a vulnerability its tough to jump to systems affected. I suspect there were one or two false positives on missing patches. The systems scanned had all of their patches. It eventually went away, and I dont seem to recall a patch job occuring between then and when it went away. **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complaince vuln scans. **Official Response from Margaret Harrison:** > Hello and thank you for your valuable feedback. A few notes that might be helpful: Frontline’s Active View data management view consolidates disparate scan data into one searchable, filterable data set that can be used to more easily manage your vulnerability scan results and generate high-level as well as granular reports. Scan results are reconciled into Active View on scan completion. There may be times when reconciliation is queued due to data volume. If the remediated vulnerability is included in scan scope and no longer appears in a re-scan, please be assured when the reconciliation process completes, the Active View will reflect the new fixed state. You can always view and access the Asset history on the right-side information panel when viewing an asset to identify the most recently reconciled data to see most recently reconciled data. Frontline strives to provide targeted actionable results to minimize the effort needed to secure your environment, with a minimum of false positives. Please report any false positives you encounter to your Client Advocate so they can be investigated and remedied in the scanner. Thank you. ### 5. Easy and Effective Vulnerability Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roman M. | SVP/CISO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** The platform is very easy to use and navigate. The dashboards and data filters are easy to set up and all pertinent information is readily available. **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** In our new remote world, it would be nice to scan computers that are not on our network. Say an agent based scan. **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** The platform and client advocate services provide us with independent quarterly reports. Our client advocate is great in helping us resolve issues that may not be just an easy patch. ### 6. Effective Vulnerability Management Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris W. | Chief Information Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** Easy to use interface and quickly calls out and describes what risks may need to be addressed. **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** The scanner tool is not easily customized to remove and add clients from the scanning environment. You need to engage an account manager to assist **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Frontline allows us to see real-time vulnerabilities and address them in a streamlined fashion. ### 7. Great comprehisive vulnerability scanning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** When issues are identified Frontline directs you to knowledgebase articles that outline the vulnerability and the fix allowing for less research and more patching/configuration of the core issue. I spend less time looking for answers so I can get back to my primary roles **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** Setting up scanning can be a bit convoluted on your own but your account manager can assist with this. Tagging assets as an accepted risk won't asjust the scan score and rescans for fixed assets seems slow. **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Understanding gaps in security, as well as verification of issues, correctly being resolved from a known vulnerability and ease of reporting to management. ### 8. Strong Vulnerability Scanner **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** Solid scanning tool overall. UI is very intuitive and works well. Like the filters and ability to have different focused views. GPA works well to track improvements. Seems to be kept up to date with latest CVEs in a timey manner. **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** Have had some issues where scanner doesn't complete and had to re deploy internal scanner RNA. **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefiting our business by enabling us to know the critical vulnerabilities that need to be solved in our customer enviornments. Identification of CVEs also drives additional revenue for us to remeidate issues with professional services. ### 9. Easy to use and Configure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Albert T. | Snr Security Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** Ease of use for most operations. Even the reporting function works fairly well. **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** Exceptions and remediation are difficult to record and not very effective even when you do. **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping to highlight out of date OS's and misconfigurations. ### 10. Simple and easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Fortra VM?** I like the simplicity over other vulnerability managers I have used. **What do you dislike about Fortra VM?** Scan launch and end times can take a bit of time. **What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives clear insight into any gaps ther may be in our vulnarability management process. ## Fortra VM Discussions - [What is beSECURE used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-besecure-used-for) - [What does digital defense do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-digital-defense-do) - [What tools are used for application vulnerability management?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/frontline-vulnerability-manager-what-tools-are-used-for-application-vulnerability-management) - [What are the typical features offered by vulnerability scanner?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/frontline-vulnerability-manager-what-are-the-typical-features-offered-by-vulnerability-scanner) - [What does vulnerability management software do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-vulnerability-management-software-do) - [View Fortra VM pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/fortra-vm/reviews/fortra-vm-review-4161496?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-21+03%3A20%3A04+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b209d810-b413-4121-9a09-733ce9aca44b&secure%5Btoken%5D=dfb3be614b264f1961c1d7cab78e835607ccd1d795c9c9fc697a11d005b1596f&format=llm_user) ## Fortra VM Features **Performance** - Issue Tracking - Detection Rate - False Positives - Automated Scans **Risk Analysis** - Risk Scoring - Reporting - Risk-Prioritization **ServiceNow Apps** - ServiceNow Integration - Value **Functionality** - User Access Control **Network** - Compliance Testing - Perimeter Scanning - Configuration Monitoring **Vulnerability Assesment** - Vulnerability Scanning - Vulnerability Intelligence - Contextual Data - Dashboards **Risk assessment** - AI Monitoring **Agentic AI - ServiceNow Store Apps** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Application** - Manual Application Testing - Static Code Analysis - Black Box Testing **Automation** - Automated Remediation - Workflow Automation - Security Testing - Test Automation **Generative AI - Vendor Security and Privacy Assessment** - Text Summarization - Text Generation **Agentic AI - Vulnerability Scanner** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance ## Top Fortra VM Alternatives - [Tenable Nessus](https://www.g2.com/products/tenable-nessus/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (287 reviews) - [Tenable Vulnerability Management](https://www.g2.com/products/tenable-vulnerability-management/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (112 reviews) - [Loopio](https://www.g2.com/products/loopio/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (802 reviews)