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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Symantec Client Management Suite

    Score2.5 out of 10
    N/ASymantec Client Management Suite is designed to automate time-consuming and redundant tasks for deploying, managing, patching, and securing desktops and laptops so organizations can reduce the cost and effort of managing Windows, Mac, Linux, and virtual desktop environments.N/A

    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
    Pricing
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Symantec Client Management Suite and Tenable Attack Surface Management
    Feature
    Symantec Client Management Suite
    -
    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 Symantec Client Management Suite and Tenable Attack Surface Management
    Feature
    Symantec Client Management Suite
    -
    Ratings
    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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    Tenable Nessus
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Symantec Client Management SuiteTenable Attack Surface Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    Whenever you have computers that aren't easily accessible or you have a big site to cover (or multi location), Symantec Client Management Suite (CMS) is really great to manage all your computers, if it's for installation, software, licenses or even status. Setting up all you need from CMS can take some time, especially when you're in a multi-location site. We had to ask the Symantec engineers to help us a couple of times and set things up because even if we followed the documentation, it wasn't an easy task. But at least, the Symantec engineers are people that know what they do and they're really efficient at it.
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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
    Broadcom
    • Patch Management: We are able to easily deploy patches to all our workstations and accurately report on compliance.
    • Software Delivery: We do a lot of software deployments to our end users and with CMS we can quickly create policies or tasks to perform these deliveries and get quick results on our success or failures.
    • Inventory: Ease of use to get reports of what workstations have what software installed, patch levels, or hardware specifications.
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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
    Broadcom
    • More transparency with the roadmap would be a welcome change. New and upcoming features are usually a surprise until a major Symantec Event takes place but little is heard about those features before and even after, in some cases, leading up to a release.
    • Documentation for some items is poor. Especially around the Workflow product. It was intended that the documentation for the elements in a workflow would be crowd-sourced, which is a good idea, but in order for that to happen, more people need to be using it and taking the time to draw up the documents.
    • Cost. Its always a big topic, especially in higher-ed, but Symantec could do more to lower its costs for some product lines in order to gain more acceptance and support. If that was done and more institutions could get their student workers to use the product, once they leave college and go into the "real-world" there is a possibility that they would start recommending Symantec products because of their use in College.
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    Tenable
    • No improvement can be suggested at this moment as it fits our needs and more
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
    So far so good - no major issues with that technology.
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    Tenable
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    Support at Symantec isn't that great. Client Management Suite isn't even listed on the Support Portal when trying to open a ticket. Your best bet for support is actually the user groups that Symantec hosts. The members of the groups are usually very responsive. With Broadcom buying Symantec, I've seen a huge jump in personnel leaving Symantec, so I'm assuming the support is just going to get worse. Recently for a simple question, I reached out to 5 people just to find out 4 of the 5 had left the company.
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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
    Broadcom
    Although there are other tools that can be utilized I don't believe those tools are as robust as Symantec Management Platform. The Symantec Management Platform was chosen because of the value it returns internally and for our customers. You can pull just about any data element from an endpoint and provide detailed reports or great graphs for the C-Level
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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
    Broadcom
    • SMP allows us to centrally manage all of our endpoints with little to no end user interaction.
    • With the new P2P downloading our bandwidth constraints have been almost completely removed.
    • Cloud Enabled Management (CEM) allows our remote users to receive the same updates as in-network devices without the need for a VPN connection.
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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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