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    SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps users monitor and troubleshoot a network with over 60 tools for network management. ETS allows users to monitor and receive alerts in real time on network availability and health, and perform network diagnostics for faster troubleshooting and resolution of complex network issues. With ETS users can deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper or advanced Subnet Calculator, manage Cisco® devices with specialized…

    $1,585

    Per Instance

    Tenable Attack Surface Management

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ATenable Attack Surface Management (formerly Tenable.asm, and previously Bit Discovery) is an external attack surface management (EASM) solution that integrates into a vulnerability management platform. Tenable.asm continuously maps the entire internet and discovers connections to internet-facing assets so that users can assess the security posture of the entire external attack surface, or those facets of an organization that face the public, and the Internet. It can be used to access an attack…N/A
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    $1,585
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset and Tenable Attack Surface Management
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    Ratings
    Tenable Attack Surface Management
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Threat Recognition00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Vulnerability Classification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Automated Alerts and Reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Threat Analysis00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence Reporting00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Automated Threat Identification00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management Tools
    Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset and Tenable Attack Surface Management
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    Tenable Attack Surface Management
    9.4
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    IT Asset Realization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Authentication00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Configuration Monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Web Scanning00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Vulnerability Intelligence00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds Engineer's ToolsetTenable Attack Surface Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
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    Usability
    8.2
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    Support Rating
    8.2
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    I have found the toolset especially useful for scanning subnets to discover devices, and for setting up temporary real-time monitors when we are troubleshooting or setting up new connections. The most useful aspect has been the ability to apply the tools to help troubleshoot and pinpoint intermittent issues. More general tools like Orion often do not have the granularity to detect issues like intermittent packet loss which are especially impactful to applications like Voice. The toolset gives us another level of capability to dig into issues.
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    Tenable
    Tenable Attack Surface Management simplifies not just your vulnerability management needs but also the mapping and discovery of known and unknown internet assets. All this within a very intuitive online dashboard, making it relatively easy to setup and configure. Without having to spend hours of training time in order to use basic functions.
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • Various monitoring
    • Stores history
    • Suggests indices
    • Helps to find the SQL query text
    • Helps to see what machines/users the bad queries are coming from
    • Shows current blocking session
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    Tenable
    • Maps external facing infrastructure and continuously updates this data
    • Can display the scan results in Business Context to help with management reporting
    • Great Asset Management tool
    • Powerful vulnerability scanning engine
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • The unifying component that is intended to be the initial interface to the tools seems clunky. I prefer to start the tools individually rather than using it.
    • The port scanner could use some improvements to make it easier to use.
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    Tenable
    • No improvement can be suggested at this moment as it fits our needs and more
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    Usability
    SolarWinds
    Very easy to use and intuitive. Just be careful with the WAN Killer...it does what it says.
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    Tenable
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    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it
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    Tenable
    Very fast and helpful support staff. From the Vendor as well as the local Distributor. Support like that makes adding such a product to our MSSP offering the obvious choice.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    I haven't compared any tools similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. This might be because I'm pretty biased when it comes to monitoring, and reporting solutions. I've found that SolarWinds provides the biggest bang for the buck in my opinion. I'm sure there are other solutions on the market that compete, but I haven't tried any of them because I've been very satisfied with SolarWinds.
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    Tenable
    We didn't test any other solutions. Because to be frank no other solution can compare feature-wise as well as ease of use. Which makes reselling and supporting any Tenable product such an obvious choice for us.
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • Spend less time downloading free buggy tools
    • All the tools in one spot, so you don't have to look around for tools
    • Get to the solution sooner
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    Tenable
    • This solution is most definitely a great Return on Investment because it can quickly and accurately discover and report on our clients' entire Internet facing real estate. And keep this data updated with any changes.
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    ScreenShots

    SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Screenshots

    Screenshot of Perform network stress tests with Engineer's Toolset WAN Killer. You don’t need to use real traffic for studying network activities, like testing traffic and load balancing. Instead, deploy Engineer's Toolset WAN Killer to help interactively test connections and adjust the IP traffic generated to achieve the desired network load based on your requirements.Screenshot of Quickly troubleshoot your network with enhanced ping capabilities and packet route tracing, among other network bandwidth usage and monitoring tools included in ETS.Screenshot of Using ETS, you can run scans to gain insight into how routers, hubs switches, and other devices are configured by analyzing SNMP queries and viewing MIB attributes. ETS is designed to help you more easily understand whether your network and ports are using appropriate settings.Screenshot of Config Compare, a part of ETS, is built to compare the running configuration of a Cisco router with the startup configuration. With the Cisco configuration compare tool, you can easily detect the changes made to the network, switch, and router configurations that are not committed to non-volatile memory (NVRAM).Screenshot of Manage your IP network from discovery to address tracking. Discover subnets on a seed router and scan the subnet or a range of IP addresses, generate a list of subnets along with their mask, size, range, and broadcast address and actively monitor subnets to identify and track which IP addresses are in use on your network.