# InsightVM (Nexpose) Reviews **Vendor:** Rapid7 **Category:** [Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-security-monitoring-and-analytics) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 78 ## About InsightVM (Nexpose) InsightVM is Rapid7’s vulnerability risk management offering that advances security through cross-department clarity, a deeper understanding of risk, and measurable progress. By informing and aligning technical teams, security teams can remediate vulnerabilities and build Security into the core of the organization. With InsightVM, security teams can: Gain Clarity Into Risk and Across Teams Better understand the risk in your modern environment so you can work in lockstep with technical teams. Extend Security’s Influence Align traditionally siloed teams and drive impact with the shared view and common language of InsightVM. See Shared Progress Take a proactive approach to security with tracking and metrics that create accountability and recognize progress. ## InsightVM (Nexpose) Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **automation features** of InsightVM, enhancing efficiency in vulnerability management and remediation processes. (4 reviews) - Users value the **real-time vulnerability identification** of InsightVM, enhancing security through continuous monitoring and automated remediation. (4 reviews) - Users value the **efficient asset management** features of InsightVM, enabling effective tracking and categorization of critical assets. (3 reviews) - Users value the **clear risk scoring and live dashboards** in InsightVM for prioritizing asset exposure effectively. (3 reviews) - Users value the **clear, actionable risk scoring** of InsightVM, which helps prioritize asset exposure effectively. (3 reviews) - Users value the **automated scanning** of InsightVM, enhancing continuous monitoring and simplifying vulnerability management across deployments. (2 reviews) - Users value the **real-time visibility** InsightVM provides, enhancing vulnerability detection and network security management. (2 reviews) - Ease of Use (2 reviews) - Helpful (2 reviews) - Insights (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complexity of setup and maintenance** challenging, which can hinder the overall effectiveness of InsightVM. (3 reviews) - Users experience **performance issues** with heavy scans and dashboards, which affect usability and response times from support. (2 reviews) - Users experience **peak memory consumption** issues, necessitating careful resource management for optimal performance with InsightVM. (2 reviews) - Users find **memory consumption issues** with InsightVM, requiring careful tracking and optimization to enhance functionality. (2 reviews) - Users find the **time-consuming process** of tuning custom reports and tags challenging while scaling InsightVM. (2 reviews) - Users find **InsightVM time-consuming** due to unwieldy maintenance and slow support response, complicating optimization efforts. (2 reviews) - Users often face **alert issues** due to false positives, leading to wasted resources and unnecessary remediation efforts. (1 reviews) - Complex Configuration (1 reviews) - Complex Reporting (1 reviews) - Complex Setup (1 reviews) ## InsightVM (Nexpose) Reviews ### 1. InsightVM’s Actionable Risk Scoring and Live Dashboards Impress **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** tali k. | Threat Intelligence Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2025 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** I like InsightVM’s clear, actionable risk scoring and live dashboards that keep asset exposure prioritized and up to date. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Some scans and dashboards can feel heavy at scale, and custom reporting and tagging rules sometimes require extra tuning to get right. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** InsightVM helps continuously identify and prioritize vulnerabilities across our hybrid environment, turning scan results into clear, ticketed remediation work that shortens risk exposure windows and streamlines coordination with ops. ### 2. Nexpose is an excellent tool that helps identify vulnerabilities. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sagar U. | Technical Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2024 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** InsightVM offers real-time visibility into the entire network, enabling continuous monitoring and immediate detection of vulnerabilities as they appear. It integrates seamlessly with various other security tools and systems, such as SIEMs, ticketing systems, and DevOps tools, facilitating a more streamlined security workflow. The tool supports automated remediation workflows, which can significantly reduce the time and effort required to address vulnerabilities. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** You will get dificulty during initial setp as the setup is complex. Cost is very high to compair to other tool. Some users have experienced false positives in the scan results, which can lead to unnecessary remediation efforts and wasted resources. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nexpose help to identify the vulnerability and provide remidiation report. It has realtime scaaning feature. The detailed compliance reporting and helps organizations ensure they meet various regulatory standards such as PCI-DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA. ### 3. Better than most of the products in the market, but not the best **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu K. | IT Security Operations Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2024 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Vulnerability views Reporting Dashboards Tons of threat intelligence and research data integrated with the product by Rapid7. Stuff like Metasploit DB, AttackerKB and project Heisenberg are some of the best integrations. Remediation Projects Risk Scoring - the new Active Risk Scoring is awesome. Scan Assistant (probably the best service for vuln scanning) **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The security console is a lot buggy. Native Jira integration is not really native. Breaks all the time. Sometimes it takes days to identify some vulnerabilities which is a major drawback especially for critical vulnerabilities (Jetbrains TeamCity CVSS10 vuln is one example, took it 3 days to identify vulnerable assets) Too much administrative efforts to setup stuff. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** InsightVM is solving all our vulnerability management problems. It checks all the boxes starting from identification to remediation of a vulnerability. I cannot say it is a fully fledged and completely mature tool but it is far better than the other tools I've used in the past (Tenable, Qualys, MS Defender) ### 4. Master in Vulnerability Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Translation and Localization | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** I have been using this product for more than 6 years and it's the best product for vulnerability management. They keep track of all zero-days and update their database against all newly listed CVEs within 24 hours. It offers an all-in-one dashboard with multiple widgets **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Integration with extrenal ticketing tool is limited **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this product for vulnerability management, which keeps us updated with newly listed CVEs. It notifies us whenever there is a zero-day or critical vulnerability release. We use it to reduce the risk score in our environment, ensuring timely patching especially for Microsoft Tuesday patches and critical CVEs. It also helps us keep track of EOS/EOL software. Overall, this product helps us stay safe from cyber attacks and reduce our risks ### 5. "One of the Best tool for Vulnerability Management" **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranay M. | Information Security Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** InsightVM is providing Agent based scanning which helps us alot, apart from that Dashboard is also very cool and helps alot in easily go throught the stats. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** There is nothing to dislike apart from Memory consumption is sometimes getting very high. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using InsightVM for Cloud VM. ### 6. Dynamic Asset Discovery feature in InsightVM platform provides fluidity to our inventory management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi C. | Cloud Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** InsightVM efficiently manages our cloud workloads through its robust agent installation. We can overview and scan all our images at various stages in deployment. We can also identify potential risks and prioritize handling vulnerabilities in our infrastructure. Since it is an agent-based platform, we can conveniently focus on our enhancements and let InsightVM take care of the underlying dependencies. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** We need to keep track of our resource consumption & take suitable approaches for optimization. This can be tedious while working on InsightVM, but with adequate exposure, it's possible to make the best out of its functionalities. We can build a resilient infrastructure to meet security compliances in our SDLC with InsightCM. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dynamic Asset discovery is crucial for our organization as we work on implementing and decommissioning virtual machines. We can't manually go into our portal and check with the drifts after each deployment. InsightVM is helpful in giving us fluidity to scan dynamically as per our cron schedules and take resource snapshots for quick reference. Hence when there is a security breach, we simply overview the snapshots to troubleshoot and recover our virtual machines hosted for our customer requirements without much downtime. ### 7. Good Vulnerability Management Solution **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Easy to manage, good capabilities, agent and network scan works as intended. A good way to remediate vulnerabilities using Remediation projects and set proper Goal and SLAs. A good reporting available to use **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Managing multiple scan jobs and tagging of assets as not granular for very big enterprise organizations. Some network scans can cause network issues for the endpoints. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** InsightVM (Nexpose) provides a good vulnerability management and risk mitigation solution with remediation capabilities and ensure keeping good SLAs and goals for the organization. ### 8. InsightVM(Nexpose) : A powerful tool for Vulnerability management, Tried and Tested. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank J. | Endpoint Security Specialist , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** I've used this product for more than a year, and I can state with pride that it makes vulnerability management incredibly simple. Comparatively speaking to other solutions on the market, the UI is user-friendly and simple to comprehend. This tool makes it crystal evident where the weaknesses are and what needs to be given top priority. For the vulnerability and patch management team, this tool is highly helpful. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** One thing I found so far that Search feature is a bit slow. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being a part of Patch management team, This tool gives complete details about the vulnerability and according to that we can prioritize the patching process. ### 9. IVM review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** René T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Real risk score based (holistically: vulnerability x asset context), agent and engine, assisted SCCM patching, hardening check, remediation projects, SLAs **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** GUI is immature and inconsistent, Query builder is limited (you would need additional data lake software: Splunk, Power BI etc.), expensive **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerability management ### 10. Helped me manage my assets and the whole threat and vulnerability management with ease. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhananjay B. | Technical Lead Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Remediation projects helped a lot in assigning open findings with stakeholders and tracking in live. Assets tagging is another feature that helped me bifurcate and categorized my assets basis their criticality and exposure. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Memory consumption sometimes is at its peak. Apart from that, compared to other VM tools it has enough features with other tool even dont have as a whole solution. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall Threat and vulnerability management with effective tracking of assets basis their severity, usage and exposure. InsightVM helps to raise remediations projects and create automated actions on the same. ### 11. Great vulnerability management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rish D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** This tool really makes vulnerability management easy and seamless **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Scanning assets can take a lot of CPU and RAM usage. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping managing all our vulnerabilities and being able to create remediation projects to see progress made on them. ### 12. Review for insightVM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dinesh M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** User friendly, easy to use, light weight, cost effective, efficient **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Nothing more to dislike but multiple vm runs slow. Which happens in every vm **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since it is faster than other VMs, users get better experience ### 13. Condensed Vulnerability assesment tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nisha D. | Security Operations content developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The tool's interface is good, very user-friendly and easy to use. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The Tool provides Asset discovery but needs much time for the scanning **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used the Nexpose for the PCI-DSS compliance ### 14. Great vulnerability insights with multiple features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul C. | Senior Security Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2022 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** No one can beat the insight VM inbuilt and customized Dashboards, query builders, best remediation module, and reporting filters. The scanning coverage, options, and authentication mechanism are good. The vulnerability identification with metasploitable modules, public exploit, and steps to replicate helps a lot. Automation features and cloud configuration assessment features are really useful. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The tool does not have a real-time threat protection module, and data shown after running query builder doesn't have much more info to export. Application and Operating system-related vulnerabilities cannot be exported separately. InsightVM support needs to improve the response time. Do not support lot of integration from UI, API integration is bit complex **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool solves problems related to Dashboards, risk understanding, and remediation modules and helps in tracking, retesting, and mitigating the vulnerability. This solves issues related to reporting generation either for stakeholders or leadership. ### 15. Flexible and evolving project **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rick H. | IT Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** InsightVM has been flexible enough to meet a variety of our vulnerability management and reporting needs across a few business units. The cloud integrations are great and allow us to feed information to other departments for remediation. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Setup can still be a bit clunky. Some bugs in complex vulnerability checks can take a long time to be fixed. It can be difficult to set up reports to be concise until you have a good feel for the different options available in the console. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** Don't forget to consider the cloud portion of InsightVM versus the on-prem only version (Nexpose). I've found the cloud portion allows for folks who don't need to be in the tool daily (managers and executives) to still get value without needing to learn a new tool. It is also super useful for dashboarding. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using InsightVM along with InsightIDR to inform our vulnerability management program and measure patching and remediation SLAs. Before, calculating SLAs was entirely manual and a huge time sink. ### 16. Good Vulnerability management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2023 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** It helps to track security details like vulnerabilities and patch information. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Nothing much. Sometimes it takes time. Mostly due to network lag may be. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly vulnerability tracking and patching. ### 17. One of the best vulnerability management solutions on the market, tried true and tested. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2022 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The scalability of the scanner distribution, detailed vulnerability remediation reports, automated reports for executives, asset discovery scanning and many more. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Administration and maintenance of the console and scanner engines can be a little unwieldy. At times, Rapid7 support can be slow to respond to tickets and queries. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerability scanning, remediation, and tracking across a variety of different environments. Also works in conjunction with our ServiceNow CMDB for tracking of assets. ### 18. Easy to use, not so easy to setup **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael T. | Head of Service Delivery, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2022 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Easy to use once installed - it's pretty well a "set and forget" system that you don't need to constantly update or adjust. Interface is relatively easy to use. InsightVM has lots of features to keep your security analysts happy for days on end. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Requires an on-prem management console (not just scan engine) if you have on-prem assets that need to be scanned. Requires in-depth knowledge to install and get up and running. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gives visibility to all the vulnerabilities in your systems that are otherwise hidden or not visible. Be warned that this visibility can be horrifying in the scale and magnitude ### 19. InsightVM Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siva K. | Specialist - Vulnerability Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The policy builder is one of the great feature **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** A more convincing way of removing the assets in bulk would be great **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** This has been a great support when a client comes up with user defined controls for Policy Complaince ### 20. InsightVM (Nexpose) Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lem R. | Systems Engineer - Cybersecurity Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** I like how InsightVM does a deeper vulnerability scan of all assets that have an IP address in our network. Network devices, hosts, IoTs, phones, etc. InsightVM also integrates very well with InsightIDR SIEM and Insight Anyconnect to remediate issues it finds. I also like how it integrates with SCCM which makes it easier for us to remediate and automate things. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** InsightVM for some reason had issues resolving licensing count in our deployment as well as doing exclusions when manually creating a scan group. The ability to create a scan group exclusion is critical because we use a guest network and during an IP range scanning, these devices are also reported by InsightVM. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** As a recommendation for others considering InsightVM, run a longer POC of the system and see how it works. Line up a test system and play with all the settings. The product is solid and the support is top-notch. InsightVM is a great tool for any vulnerability management process. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We mostly used InsightVM for the vulnerability management of our servers and workstation environment. Using InsightVM allowed us to find obsolete software we've already forgotten as well as helping us keep our Windows environment updated with current patches. ### 21. InsightVM simplified vulnerability Management and outlines a plan for IT without big infosec teams **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael B. | Server Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** InsightVM gave us the ability to bring together several log systems and freed up our time to concentrate on the high value issues and single out the highest risk assets in the environment as well as justify removing Java from the environment that one team required an out of date version for an application. Real actionable data to provide to management to make changes in security policy. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** We did not have any negative experiences during deployment and use. We do still have issues with the web platform and missing features compared to the on premises server, but that is minor compared to what we have gained from the platform. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have greatly improved our time to response on vulnerabilities and the reporting has proven useful in many high level meetings in order to affect changes and show improvements in our security exposure over the last 6 months. ### 22. The benchmark for success with vulnerability management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael E. | IT Security Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** InsightVM gives our team the ability to rapidly scan our entire environment without creating a ton of noise in our SIEM tool while still providing accurate and timely vulnerability findings. The reporting and automation is top notch and really allows us to pin point where vulnerabilities are and what needs to be prioritized. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Dashboards can be a bit confusing to setup for first time users on the Insight Platform **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** If you are considering another product, consider true risk management, not just check the box scanning needs along with cost associated. It's easy to come to the conclusion that InsightVM is the superior product in this space. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are finding issues that prior products simply didn't show us or provide us with a way to prioritize remediation. InsightVM does both without issue. ### 23. Decent for smaller teams, but could use some tweaking **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan C. | IT Security Analyst III, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Ease of use and on-prem option. The agent also fills in for the InsightIDR collector. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** We had constant issues of assets showing up multiple times, and were never correlated/de-duped. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** Keep in mind that this is a pretty inflexible software. If it works for you, it works FANTASTIC. If you need any customization at all (such as reports), you might not like the results. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to know about high and critical vulnerabilities of our systems. ### 24. Insight VM useful experience in vulnerability management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Federico G. | Consultor Senior en seguridad de la información, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** IVM has a remediation projects , a section that is a helpful tool to follows vulns state during periods between scan jobs, we can review the vulns state per group (servers, apps, workstations, others), and the person in charge and is possible to add comments and approval the remediation actions and do additional test to confirm. This feature reduces the load of work in management and is the most effective strattegy **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Some times different areas have differents needs and we must to prepare a very customizable reports for each one, some times the person in charge change the idea and request a new report with other info. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved that with a single tool can scan internal external IP addresses, virtualizad and cloud objetives We have a better useful manage for remediation projects with third party integrations, this info can be exported to other solutions like SIEM, or Metasploit and is more easy to do complex tasks ### 25. Switched to IVM and never looked back **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** chris d. | Information Security Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** IVM is very easy to use and intuitive. From setting up sites, to creating asset groups, to tagging, it all makes sense. Granted there are deeper features to learn about, especially those related to the cloud-based features such as Remediation Projects. I've used IVM for about 3 years and I continually find new ways to use the product and R7 is consistently adding new features, so there's always a new way to use the product. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** While it isn't an easy ask, the remediation instructions can be improved on. Granted it can be difficult when there are numerous operating systems, along with their associated versions, especially when you get into the Linux world. This can be helpful for teams that are not experienced with security or are less technically knowledgeable. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** As with any product, ensure that it meets your needs and fills gaps that you may have. IVM won't be a magic bullet, but it will point you in the right direction and will help your security team with vulnerability remediation. Rapid 7 has also kept those that are outside of security in mind. With the proper knowledge, remediation projects, goals, reports, and asset groups can all be used to ensure other technical teams have the information they need to fix any issues identified in IVM. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The core of what we are trying to resolve is vulnerability assessment and management. In an enterprise environment this is always a challenge, but additionally we've found it useful for discovery and organization of assets. While IVM isn't designed for asset management, it can certainly help. While our network design isn't typical, it has been helpful to utilize tags to organize and assign remediation responsibilities. ### 26. It's a good product and has good capabilities. Easy to use and the console overview is great. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohtash S. | Technical Security Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The visibility on the console ans easy to use is the best thing about Nexpose. The reporting feature is also great. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Sometimes there are so many false positives and the articles to patch vulnerability as given by Nexpose support does not exist anywhere on the internet. I have few cases that are still pending from Nexpose support from last 1 year and there no update from the support team. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** You can also check Tenable who is a good competitor for Nexpose. The support is mot that good but the tool works fine and there are least issues with the product after buying. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, it gives you the CVE vulnerability of the servers and the resolution too to patch them. Also it is helpful for internal auditing by patching the vulnerability. ### 27. One of the best vm tools **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suchibrato M. | Security Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The UI and Ux is top notch. The tool seems easy to work upon but is very powerful. Hassle free site creation and other usages. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Reporting feature could be accumulated directly in a single screen rather than opening another tab and generating manually. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** Go ahead, much better than the competition around. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Doing ad-hoc scanning of our environment to check the security stature and for any new vulnerabilities within the network. ### 28. One powerful product that needs just a little fine tuning. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2018 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The basic Tasks, like creating reports, Viewing Assets, and creating Goals, are easy as can be.Deployment with the agents was a breeze as well. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** More granular and advanced searches, groupings, reports, and goals are a lot more difficult. because of how the filters work. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rapid7 InsightVM is one piece to a very powerful suite of tools offered by Rapid7. InsightVM was easy to deploy using their agents. The constant theme to InsightVM is that basic tasks at the enterprise level are easy. More granular tasks and trying to filter assets into specific groups can be a much bigger job than it should be. ### 29. It's very good utility , I am enjoying the cool features of this tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish U. | C, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** It has Robust features and for better results for any other competitors tool. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Sometimes it works slow . Also some API function needs to be involved. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** Please use it **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dependencies on on premise network removed , it's very strong cloud plateform solution , I like the real time data update . ### 30. Security Overview **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** InsightVM allows us to see an overall view of our security posture. Easy to use and understand the metrics provided on the built-in reports and dashboards. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Very minimal to dislike.. I would say the one request I would like to see in the future is more customization of reporting and projects. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to see the entire view of the company in one view. Easy to identify where remediation efforts are needed. VM allows me to communicate to stakeholders easily and provide detailed feedback when asked questions regarding the reports. ### 31. InsightVM The Ultimate Vulnerability Management Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon C. | Technical Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Vulnerability metrics Remediation Projects Dashboards Asset Tagging Automated Scanning **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Credentialed scanning can raise some concerns about password sniffing, but this is mitigated by installing the agent on the endpoints. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** Geographic Sites with respectively placed scan engines. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The product has given us visibility into our threat landscape and has helped us significantly reduce the number of exploitable systems in our environment. ### 32. Rapid7 InsightVM - No Other Way To Go **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan S. | Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Definitely the Remediation Projects. No more spreadsheets, thousands of tickets, or super long PDF's that the owner is just going to throw away. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Just the waiting on them to offer a full-cloud option. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Risk-based Vulnerability Management with plenty of automation and granularity built right in. ### 33. Great tool for discovering and managing risks **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Comprehensive scans and data on vulnerabilities in your environment. Great both on prem and remote systems. Plenty of tools or remediations. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Not always easy to search or create specific queries **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Risks and remediation across environment ### 34. Good Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shakil Md. R. | Senior Executive Officer (SEO), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Good presentation of output of findings. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Basically it takes RAM which sometimes create difficulties. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** Compare with other tools, InsightVM NEXPOSE is a good tool for the organization. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** VA ### 35. Kunal Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kunal S. | Global Vulnerability & Threat Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Identify active assets Port scanning Missing patch identification **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Fixing Authentication issue specially Unix No domain based authentication for Linux device No Cis benchmark configration error identification **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventory with businsess unit All asset identification in cloud ### 36. Insights about InsightVM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya V. | Security Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Adaptive Security, live vulnerability management and endpoint analytics **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Does not have the capability to do dynamic scanning of non web applications **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scanning networks for vulnerabilities ### 37. Good Baselining for all your machines **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** GUI creatimg multiple sites for different machines, performing scans whenever you need **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Nothing much it is a great too for VUlnerabilty assessment **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** I would go for this tool to peform VA and to use this in Security Analysis **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detecting vulnerabilties on devices and performing patches to protect Devices from exploitation ### 38. InsightVM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Relations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** I am a big fan of the reporting tools, SLAs and insightVM agent **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** I really don't have any nuances with the product, it has evolved since I start using it, got more integration, and additional features **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** It is a great product, easy to setup and use **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Staying on top of our remediation process, monitoring the progress and meeting SLAs ### 39. Nexpose feedback review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** It helps in creating better security outcomes, creating device groups is very easy and API tie ins work very well. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Very frequent updates and console lockups. License isvery expensive per asset. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides the ability to scan for policy configuration and compare with control requirements. ### 40. Nexpose **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Easy to use and description of the vulnerability and recommendations **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Makes system little slow and Looking for other platforms support **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Standard VA scan for network and servers ### 41. Effective vulnerability management tool with lots of customisation to cater all your needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Features, Customisations , Ease of use are of the top features **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Pricing could be high orther than that I see nothing **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** You might find the better than others in the market **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complete vulnerability picture of infrastructure ### 42. Over all the product is good and also has ability to fulfill Customer requirement to manage the VA. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** GUI and mapping are one of the best in Nexpose. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Overall the product really usable and nothing as such to highlight for dislike. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** Yes, I mean in terms use the product. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asset mapping. ### 43. it is an excellent tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** its auto-scan feature, accuracy, and user-friendly dashboard **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** It should have a feature to add/remove/edit assets/VI. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** Yes sure, I have recommended to few of my friend **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerability Management ### 44. InsightVM frmo Rapid7 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Reporting and cloud capabilities are very good. Also Remediation projects are helpful. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** false positives and R7 doesnt have support where you can call in case of need. You open a case and they follow up on their SLA. You can schedule a call with the support person after creating a case based on THE SUPPORT PERSON'S CALENDER and mostly you wont get an open slot the same day. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Through InsightVM we are shifting left to give remediation and reporting controls to the IT admins. ### 45. InsightVM (Nexpose) Vulnerability Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Configuration, customization, and scanning **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Inaccuracy of some scans (Cisco routers sometimes show up as different models which mark incorrect vulnerabilities) **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Insight to Vulnerabilities and validation of our patch management ### 46. a little more detailed explations about the vulnerabilites, recommendations steps will be insightful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2021 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** basic details of every vulnerability, mitigation **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** minor information on recommendation steps **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** user friendly **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** vulnerability disclosure ### 47. Great Visibility and Reporting with ease of use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kirk L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2020 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Variety of ways to organize the scanning of your assets across the infrastructure. In conjunction with the Rapid7 agent, InsightVM works well to gather and update data daily for each asset that has it installed. Insight VM can also tap into a variety of OS's and give specific details on each one, including the vulnerabilities that reside. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Exhaustive scans (although not always necessary) can be time consuming. The reports can be rather lengthy if set to a generic filter. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerability management need has been fulfilled and better results on pentests for the organization due to remediation from findings with InsightVM. ### 48. Easy to use with great reporting and insights **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David J. | Lead Enterprise Security Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2020 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** The UI is easy to navigate and features like SQL query give you a lot of options in how you can report on and analyze vulnerability and system data. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** More reliance on cloud infrastructure for dashboarding features. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting more visibility into real risk posed to our assets, the maturity of our patch management program, and baselining system posture. ### 49. Easy to use powerful Vulnerability Management System. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2020 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Easy to use, very user friendly, include everything I need. **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** Not much really but I wish I had more freedom in reports. **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** I really recommend it after using different similar products. **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** actively checking my network/systems vulnerabilities and planning fixing them. ### 50. how do you identify Risk? **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pete J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2020 **What do you like best about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** the ability to identify risk the ability to prioritize risk reporting **What do you dislike about InsightVM (Nexpose)?** certain dashboard cards could use further customizing **Recommendations to others considering InsightVM (Nexpose):** great product to identify risk and create projects around to remediate **What problems is InsightVM (Nexpose) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to identify risk, set goals and report on this... built in prioritization with the risk score. ## InsightVM (Nexpose) Discussions - [How to generate a report with specific field in CSV format?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/37852-how-to-generate-a-report-with-specific-field-in-csv-format) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is InsightVM (Nexpose) used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-insightvm-nexpose-used-for) - 1 comment - [What is InsightVM?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-insightvm) - 1 comment - [View InsightVM (Nexpose) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/insightvm-nexpose/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+13%3A30%3A41+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0d20f67c-918b-4411-85d7-fb713ec012a6&secure%5Btoken%5D=95f1515beb4cad77bec70039afbbd583ea1e3a5228a18c5c6d26796c345072a8&format=llm_user) ## InsightVM (Nexpose) Features **Management** - Dashboards and Reports - Workflow Management - Administration Console **Performance** - Issue Tracking - Detection Rate - False Positives - Automated Scans **Risk Analysis** - Risk Scoring - Reporting - Risk-Prioritization **Activity Monitoring** - Usage Monitoring - Database Monitoring - API Monitoring - Activity Monitoring **ServiceNow Apps** - ServiceNow Integration - Value **Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Operations** - Governance - Logging and Reporting - API / Integrations **Network** - Compliance Testing - Perimeter Scanning - Configuration Monitoring **Vulnerability Assesment** - Vulnerability Scanning - Vulnerability Intelligence - Contextual Data - Dashboards **Security** - Compliance Monitoring - Risk Analysis - Reporting **Agentic AI - ServiceNow Store Apps** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing **Security Controls ** - Anomaly Detection - Data Loss Prevention - Security Auditing - Cloud Gap Analytics **Application** - Manual Application Testing - Static Code Analysis - Black Box Testing **Automation** - Automated Remediation - Workflow Automation - Security Testing - Test Automation **Administration** - Security Automation - Security Integration - Multicloud Visibility **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics **Agentic AI - Vulnerability Scanner** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top InsightVM (Nexpose) Alternatives - [Tenable Vulnerability Management](https://www.g2.com/products/tenable-vulnerability-management/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (112 reviews) - [Tenable Security Center](https://www.g2.com/products/tenable-security-center/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (73 reviews) - [Tenable Nessus](https://www.g2.com/products/tenable-nessus/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (287 reviews)