Re: GreenBone vs Tenable

["Barton, Robert W." <bartonrt () LEWISU EDU>]

Afternoon,

Rapid7 is on my radar as well, but the GreenBone product is a real question mark; they seem to be larger in Germany.

Robert W. Barton
Executive Director of Information Security and Policy
Lewis University
One University Parkway
Romeoville, IL  60446-2200
815-836-5663

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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] GreenBone vs Tenable

Hi Robert,

I don't have any experience with Greenbone but I've had expose to some of Tenable's products as well as Rapid 7's 
InsightVM.  I did a bake off in spring 2018 between Tenable's Security Center, Tenable.io and InsightVM to determine 
which product fit our needs the best.  I found that Tenable's products can be sluggish and cumbersome to use at times 
compared to InsightVM.  InsightVM was a more stable platform and had a number of features that Tenable's rpoducts did 
not.  One of those features that I really like is InsightVM provides recommended remediation steps for most 
vulnerabilities which can really help when delegating remediation efforts to other teams/individuals.  In the end we 
ended up moving forward with InsightVM.

I'm sure that the Tenable products have changed in the year and a half since I tried them out so the information I am 
giving you may not be entirely accurate anymore.  I will add that in my last job, I worked as a professional services 
engineer and did a tenable deployment for a customer near the end of 2015.  At the time, I found that the Tenable 
products were sluggish and cumbersome as well so there is a bit of a track record there.

Both Tenable and InsightVM should be more than happy to set you up with evaluations.  I would recommend that you do 
some trials and evaluate the products against your needs.


Andrew Pete
Information Security Architect

New England Institute of Technology
One New England Tech Boulevard
East Greenwich, RI 02818-1205
401-780-4460 (Direct)
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Afternoon,

Does anybody have any experience with NNT/GreenBone?  I'm seeing a large price difference between them an Tenable (with 
Tenable being the big boy).  I'm starting an investigation into vulnerability management, so ideas or options are 
welcome.

Robert W. Barton
Executive Director of Information Security and Policy
Lewis University
One University Parkway
Romeoville, IL  60446-2200
815-836-5663



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