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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Huntress

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AHuntress is a security platform that surfaces hidden threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits. The platform helps IT resellers protect their customers from persistent footholds, ransomware and other attacks.N/A

    Tenable Nessus

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ATenable headquartered in Columbia offers Nessus, a vulnerability scanning and security assessment solution used to analyze an entity's security posture, vulnerability testing, and provide configuration assessments.

    $2,790

    Pricing
    HuntressTenable Nessus
    Editions & Modules
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    1 Year
    $2,790.00
    1 Year + Advanced Support
    $3,190.00
    2 Years
    $5,440.00
    2 Years + Advanced Support
    $6,240.00
    3 Years
    $7,951.00
    3 Years + Advanced Support
    $9,151.00
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HuntressTenable Nessus
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HuntressTenable Nessus
    Considered Both Products
    Huntress Labs Incorporated
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    Key User Insights
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    HuntressTenable Nessus
    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Huntress and Tenable Nessus
    Feature
    Huntress
    -
    Ratings
    Tenable Nessus
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Network Analytics00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Threat Recognition00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Vulnerability Classification00 Ratings9.53 Ratings
    Automated Alerts and Reporting00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Threat Analysis00 Ratings5.63 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence Reporting00 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Automated Threat Identification00 Ratings5.63 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management Tools
    Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Huntress and Tenable Nessus
    Feature
    Huntress
    -
    Ratings
    Tenable Nessus
    7.5
    4 Ratings
    10% below category average
    IT Asset Realization00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Authentication00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
    Configuration Monitoring00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
    Web Scanning00 Ratings5.63 Ratings
    Vulnerability Intelligence00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
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    Qualys TruRisk Platform
    Score6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Tenable Vulnerability Management
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HuntressTenable Nessus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (13 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HuntressTenable Nessus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Huntress Labs Incorporated
    Huntress is great for a managed service provider to provide a better cybersecurity stack to their endpoints/customers. Some smaller clients cannot afford high-priced SOC services but require SOC-level protection. Along with a couple of other layers of security, Huntress provides peace of mind for the MSP that if a threat were to arise, they would be notified with specific instructions for dealing with that threat.
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    It is an excellent tool for scanning servers, workstations, and network devices to identify missing patches and misconfiguration; we regularly use it to confirm patch effectiveness after the update; it also helps us for preparing audits such as iso 27001, and regulatory requirements, it also helps us to identify open ports and services that violate security.
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    Pros
    Huntress Labs Incorporated
    • Using the latest industry knowledge of threats that have been ongoing, but not previously known and projecting it back in time against their installed endpoints to identify machines that are vulnerable or breached and when it these events occurred
    • Very quiet. If they alert, it is a thing.
    • Very good at remediation.
    • They communicate extremely well when it matters.
    • While there are the most extensive products more often than not they are the first to alert us to a threat.
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    Tenable
    • Nessus is best at performing vulnerability scans, in fact, it gives findings and moreover accurate findings of the assessments. It does not do penetration testing or exploit the vulnerabilities because it is concerned about scanning the systems/applications.
    • In fact, Nessus has multiple profiles/policies to perform different types of scans such as, scans oriented for PCI-DSS, malware scans, web application scans, bad shell shock detection scan to name a few.
    • Nessus has the ability to classify the vulnerabilities into risk-based categories from critical to even informational which I think is one of the things that separates Nessus from other vulnerability scanners.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Huntress Labs Incorporated
    • Now that they have EDR capability, they need to fully participate in MITRE testing for direct comparison against other EDR products.
    • Now that they are going into Managed Antivirus and EDR with isolation capabilities they need to update their SLA comparative to other vendors
    • Support for non-Windows OSes for consistency in a network
    • It would be nice to seed canary files in custom shares on servers.
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    Tenable
    • The tool has lots of options for setting up before scanning any device, this methodology could be simplified further with default configuration for various devices predefined, anyhow we can use this technique by making use of policies.
    • For advanced users we cannot disable the plugins inside the plugin groups, we can enable the whole set of plugins at a time, for few hundreds its ok, but thousands of plugins are of waste of resource and time.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Huntress Labs Incorporated
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    Tenable
    Nessus is best and easy to use application for Vulnerabilities finding and reporting, it has multiple platforms and wide scope covering almost all devices for security improvement so far, thus we are very likely to continue its services.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Huntress Labs Incorporated
    We dropped SentinelOne in favor of Huntress because the UI was much more simplistic for the tier 1 techs to maintain. It beats the old web design model of three clicks to where you want to go. It is very intuitive. No one needs training to figure out how to navigate its console.
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    Tenable
    Tenable Nessus is a great product and provides a lot of value, but it is difficult to set up and use and the amount of data it generates can be overwhelming. It does help us prioritize based on the severity of the detection, however there are sometimes mitigating factors that we have implemented that Nessus does not account for, which causes lots of noise in the reports.
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    Support Rating
    Huntress Labs Incorporated
    No answers on this topic
    Tenable
    I haven't needed to contact support yet. But issues are easily solved with a quick internet search which means support and by extension, the larger community are involved and knowledgeable.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Huntress Labs Incorporated
    Firstly from a business model, [VMware] Carbon Black [Cloud Managed Detection] was not outfitted for the MSP where Huntress is very MSP-friendly from an affordably easy point to entry to value for money licensing. Carbon Black TS is not bad in anyway, well, that we found, but Huntress is a new layer of security that fits between the OS and AV layers to provide additional information, monitoring, and detection. With Huntress backing the MSP, [it] sure does help as well.
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    Tenable
    Sometimes when we identify a vulnerability with Nessus that has an exploit, we made a proof of concept with Metasploit in order to show to the IT managers the importance of the software/hardware hardening.
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    Return on Investment
    Huntress Labs Incorporated
    • We have been able to lower operational costs by shifting to Huntress.
    • We've been able to cut costs to our clients by utilizing Huntress over competing products.
    • In spite of inflation, we've been able to keep our managed service prices at a steady, below market rate, because of Huntress.
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    Tenable
    • Nessus certainly has a positive impact while me while performing my job, either as security research, or performing vulnerability assessments for clients. It gives a lot of information about the system/application after performing scans. The number of false positives is also less compared to other vulnerability scanners.
    • The professional edition is very useful as policy templates available in this edition are very handy and useful even to perform compliance scan like PCI DSS scan.
    • Also, the ability to export the scan results into reports in formats like HTML, PDF is very useful which could be for performing system/application reviews.
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