Tenable Security Center Reviews & Product Details

Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc) is the industry's most comprehensive risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) solution, enabling you to: • See all your vulnerabilities and continuously assess all assets the moment they join the network -- including transient devices that aren’t regularly connected • Predict what matters by understanding vulnerabilities in the context of business risk, as well as the criticality of affected assets • Act on each high priority vulnerability to effectively manage risk, and measure KPIs to effectively communicate effectiveness Legacy vulnerability management tools weren't designed to handle the modern attack surface and the growing number of threats that come with them. Instead, they’re limited to a theoretical view of risk, leading security teams to waste the majority of their time chasing after the wrong issues while missing many of the most critical vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to the business. By taking a risk-based approach to vulnerability management, Tenable.sc enables security teams to focus on the vulnerabilities and assets that matter most, so they can address the organization’s true business risk instead of wasting their valuable time on vulnerabilities that have a low likelihood of being exploited. Tenable delivers the most comprehensive risk-based vulnerability management solution available to help you prioritize your remediation efforts, so you can take decisive action to reduce the greatest amount of business risk with the least amount of effort.

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Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Michael Pedroso

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

14 months

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Implementation Time

2 months

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Manoj P.

Lead Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 3/2/2023

"Tenable SC Powerful yet Simple"

5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

It has capabilities to perform vulnerability scans, provide threat intelligence and do compliance management under a single hood. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

I would appreciate it if they could improve the UI for more user-friendliness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Defense & Space

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/29/2026

"Comprehensive Vulnerability & STIG Reporting in One Place"

5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

The ability to pull in Tenable Agent scan results, collect Nessus scan results, and deliver comprehensive reporting for management is extremely useful. Having a single place to configure and launch scans for vulnerabilities and STIG compliance is also very handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

Having feeds delivered every 3–5 years that end up breaking the scanners is a real headache. I’m hoping they improve by doing more thorough, repeated testing before deploying updates so these issues don’t keep happening. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kenneth W.

IT Security Manager

Banking

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/8/2026

"Unified Vulnerability Dashboard with Clear, Standardized Reporting"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

Security Center has allowed us to created a unified dashboard for tracking our defined vulnerabilities. We have our own internal expected SLA for vulnerability severities. This has allowed a clear standardized reporting process. We have also integrated it into our Service-Now instance for assignment to our IT Operations teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

The biggest downside to Security Center is the cost. New features are often bundled into new products and only become available for an additional fee, which can make upgrades feel expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kiran R.

Vulnerability Assessor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/1/2025

"Comprehensive Review of Tenable Security Center: Features, Benefits, and Insights"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

First thing is the dashboard is very informative and gives overview of crucial data such as System status, Scanner status, Plugin details and Repo statistics.. Scan zones allows easily congifure ranges of scope, and set scanner. Managing of multiple scanners is not so complex. And Job queue feature is useful to monitor scans. Configuration of policies and credential based scanning is very friendly. Customer support was good at resolving any queries and with licensing issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

Well dashboard presents data well but UI design could be more interactive. Scans are sometimes resource intensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food Production

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/24/2024

"Industry Leading Powerful Vulnerability Management Platform"

5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

1- Compliance Scan using CIS Benchmarks for windows & Network devices for all major vendor that helps to stay in compliant with ISO 27001 and other Audit requirements

2- We can perform Vulneralbity and Compliance scan to get one report for both.

3- Nessus provides Large number of plugins and built-in reports that can be used in Dashboards and KPI Reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

1- We have faced some issues during installation on appliance and it took a lot of time and effort from the tenable team to fix that issue. 2- Tenable product is excellent but requires improvement on

installation and integration with OS.

3- Tenable documentation is very complex and requires lot of

effort to understand ,how to fix the issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tenable Security Center solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tenable Security Center provides actionable insight into scan data with highly customizable dashboards, reports and workflows. We have been using Tenable.SC as a centralized platform for management of asset repositories, configuration of scan policies, user management and for dashboards and report management. tenable.sc gathers and evaluates vulnerability data from multiple scanners and provide a comprehensive view of risks using Vulnerability priority rating (VPR) which helps security analyst to prioritize the remediation efforts to fix the detected vulnerabilities. Tenable SC provides Real-time asset and vulnerability discovery and continuous monitoring for the highest level of visibility. We can also integrate and manage multiple Nessus scanners from a single dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Darshan P.

Information Security Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/30/2024

"Tenable SecurityCenter (SC) is a comprehensive vulnerability management solution"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

Comprehensive Vulnerability Management:

Asset Discovery and Inventory: Automatically discovers assets in the network, ensuring a complete inventory.

Vulnerability Scanning: Leverages Nessus for thorough and accurate scanning of network assets for vulnerabilities.

Configuration Auditing: Ensures systems are configured according to security best practices and regulatory requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

Provide lot of false positive observations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Manufacturing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/30/2023

"Key Tool for Prioritizing Risk"

5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

The VPR feature is undoubtedly my favorite as it provides our team with the necessary tools to swiftly determine the significance of a vulnerability and how to prioritize it. The ability to manage both compliance and vulnerability risk, allowing us to maintain clean dashboards and categorize information meaningfully, has been invaluable. The dashboards have enabled us to create a wide variety of visualizations tailored to different stakeholders. The implementation was quick, and the support, especially from our local team, has been top-tier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

There are some very minor limitations in the dashboard features that do not always allow me to convey the exact information or trend that I want to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/22/2023

"Tenable SC use"

5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

Tenable Security Center has been a great tool to use in our enterprise. We are on the tool daily to search and support our vulnerability management program. We have also had a great communication with a monthly cadence for support. It has been easy to use as we have learned the tool. There are a lot of things we use, including dashboards, asset lists, and queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

Sometimes we wish that we could see more in the queries or when we are looking for something specific. An example is when we are pulling data and there is not a place to pull the OS with the other data. Sometimes certain add-ons would be helpful to have it all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel V.

Cyber Security Senior Analyst Advisor

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 11/9/2022

"Ten years Tenable.sc government sector experience"

5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

Tenable.sc is basically the one-stop shop for everything Tenable, in an on-prem environment. Everything at your fingertips. The Admin side shows you the status of all your configured devices, Nessus Scanners and Agent Managers, Nessus Network Monitors, etc. In contrast, the User side gives you easy access to create and manage scans and all the parts that go into them with easy-to-use, intuitive templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

This is a hard question to answer. Tenable does a great job with its suggestions portal and addresses needs and wants in the tool fairly regularly. Anyone who has seen version 5.23.1 will agree it is probably one of the biggest leaps Tenable.sc has ever made. If I were forced to choose one downside, it would be more of a backend issue than anything else. SQLite...That is all I have to say about that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tenable Security Center solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tenable.sc finds the holes that your patching solution misses. All the patch tool knows is that you need such and such KB or patch version. Tenable.sc and Nessus will let you know that the patch alone did not resolve the issue. It also lets you know which vulnerabilities in your environment pose the most risk, based on whether it is actually being exploited in the wild. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/24/2023

"A solid vulnerability management tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Tenable Security Center?

Tenable.sc reporting capabilities are excellent, way more robust than Tenable.io and others competitors like Qualys. The ability to connect multiple Nessus scanners to Security Center and manage them from there, plus being able to track progress with in the tool is a must to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tenable Security Center?

Working with multiple repositories can be difficult. At the same time when running agent scans some duplicated results can be found. I believe the latest version has a new repository called universal to help with this issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tenable Security Center solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need to detect vulnerabilities in the environment and work with internal teams to prioritize and mitigate according to criticality. Being able to run multiple networks and agents scan allow us to cover the entire footprint of the organization. The benefit that I see in having the tool is the accuracy of the results and the out of the box dashboards for reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.