AWS CloudTrail vs. Tenable Security Center

Tenable Security Center

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudTrail	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of an AWS account. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking,…	N/A
Tenable Security Center	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc) from Tenable Network Security in Baltimore, presents a vulnerabiliy management option used to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities based on risk to businesses. It is managed on premises.	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

Tenable Security Center

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	Tenable Security Center
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

You can view, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services free of charge. You can set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region free of charge. Once a CloudTrail trail is set up, Amazon S3 charges apply based on your usage. You will be charged for any data events or additional copies of management events recorded in that region. In addition, you can choose CloudTrail Insights by enabling Insights events in your trails. CloudTrail Insights analyzes write management events, and you are charged based on the number of events that are analyzed in that region.

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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudTrail	Tenable Security Center
Top Pros	Pro Easy implementation Pro Extremely powerful Pro Ec2 instance	Pro Vulnerability management Pro Ip addresses Pro Set up
Top Cons	Minus 90 days Minus User interface	Minus Os level Minus Api access Minus Room for customization

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	AWS CloudTrail	Tenable Security Center
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User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	Tenable Security Center
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.4 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	Tenable Security Center
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS It is necessary to enable [AWS] Cloudtrail when using AWS in a production environment, otherwise you will not have any idea what is happening within your accounts. Third party monitoring applications will all require [AWS] CloudTrail to be enabled as well. I would not recommend it solely as a monitoring tool, to get the most out of it you must send the logs elsewhere. Either to Cloudwatch logs or a third party product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Tenable [Tenable.sc (formerly SecurityCenter)] does very well for internal scanning for vulnerabilities, however it needs to be combined with Tenable.io in order to do cloud scanning. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS API Log User activity tracking Real-time alerts Incentivized AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Read full review	Tenable Vulnerability management from one place Maximum endpoint visibility Easy to set up and plan the structure Support desk quickly responses Well-prepared documentation Broad scanning type Supports various compliance standards User groups allows coordination between teams Ahmet Fatih IRKLI Cyber Security Specialist Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS [In my experience] Cost can easily get out of control with multiple trails on full logging Logs can be difficult to decipher Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Tenable Centralized vulnerability management with sensors. Network health assessment and Incident response. For alerting or notification, it should also support the SMS gateway. Incentivized Chandan Singh Rathore Senior Technical Consultant Read full review
Support Rating	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	Tenable On all of the occasions that I have had to reach out to Tenable for assistance, they have been extremely helpful and knowledgeable. Solutions and support are provided quickly, and they work on the issue until it is resolved. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS I think in the end, CloudTrail has more features and you can dive deeper inside the logs so it depends on your usage and what you expect in the end to make the right choice, I would say that both tools are really useful and bring a lot of benefits to I.T. companies. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Tenable We decided to go with Tenable due to its robust reporting capabilities and competitive pricing vs its competitors. While all tools are very similar in regards to scanning capabilities we prefer Tenable SC's user interface. We also like the option to have both on-prem and cloud with theirs. Tenable io product as well. Incentivized Joevanne Velez Senior IT Security Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Allows us to investigate any strange api actions Increases security Audit trail of changes made in AWS Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Tenable Create internal/operational efficiencies Improve compliance & risk management Cost management Solid vulnerability scanner Ease, of use, and capabilities when it comes to analyzing vulnerabilities is what makes this product stand out Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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