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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Veracode

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Veracode provides advanced application security solutions, trusted by enterprises to develop and maintain secure software. Its platform identifies exploitable risks, speeds up vulnerability remediation, and reduces security debt at scale using a proprietary AI-assisted remediation engine.N/A
    Pricing
    Tenable NessusVeracode
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Tenable NessusVeracode
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Developer pricing options available
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    Community Pulse
    Tenable NessusVeracode
    Considered Both Products
    Tenable
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    Veracode
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode was brought in to supplement services previously provided by other vendors. As our org recently acquired another organization, we identified Veracode as a 'go-forward' system needed to consolidate security tooling in the organization.
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    90 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    132 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    76 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    101 Answers
    Features
    Tenable NessusVeracode
    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Tenable Nessus and Veracode
    Feature
    Tenable Nessus
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Veracode
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    Ratings
    Network Analytics1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Recognition7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Classification9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Alerts and Reporting10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Analysis5.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence Reporting5.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Threat Identification5.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management Tools
    Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Tenable Nessus and Veracode
    Feature
    Tenable Nessus
    7.5
    4 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Veracode
    -
    Ratings
    IT Asset Realization7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Authentication7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configuration Monitoring8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Scanning5.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Intelligence9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Tenable NessusVeracode
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    Rencore Code (SPCAF)
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qualys TruRisk Platform
    Score6 out of 10
    Trend Vision One Email and Collaboration Security
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Tenable Vulnerability Management
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Checkmarx
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tenable NessusVeracode
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.3
    (144 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.3
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    5.5
    (29 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.7
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    7.6
    (67 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    5.5
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    6.4
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Tenable NessusVeracode
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Veracode
    Veracode helped us our team's developers in saving time significantly. For instance, if I take a library and assume it's going to work until it reaches QA or UAT, where we find out there's a vulnerability, that can require extensive effort for code refactoring or redesigning; Veracode helps prevent that before the pull request is merged.
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    Pros
    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.
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    Veracode
    • It is good at recommending fixing issues with third-party dependencies used in application code with detailed version information and knowing which version fixes what.
    • It has a very nice interface for triaging flaws. One can sort the vulnerabilities found in code from Very Likely to be exploited to least likely to be exploited.
    • There is a collections feature that allows us to group together groups of application profiles belonging to the same suite of applications.
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    Cons
    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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    Veracode
    • Scan results stability: from one scan to another, additional flaws appear whereas code did not change.
    • Entry points selection: hard to be sure selection is optimal, should be automatized or hidden.
    • Branches management: we currently use sandboxes to scan different branches of our software. Would be good to have real branches management.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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.
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    Veracode
    At this time, and we just renewed a month ago, I dont see any products out there overall that can offer what Veracode does. Yes, its not cheap by any means, but for the money its the best application security scanning tool out there.
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    Usability
    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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    Veracode
    - Almost no setup required and easy to configure - Very easy to use, intuitive UI with integrated analytics and learning portals. - Seamless to review the results, triage them, generate reports. - Security progression of the product/application is tracked via successive scans. - Privileges/Roles nicely fine grained and tightly controlled to let teams "view" only their products.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Tenable
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    Veracode
    Veracode has always been up and available to us.
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    Performance
    Tenable
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    Veracode
    At this point, it runs well and mostly in a timely fashion. Dynamic scans take days but this may be a config issue still to be resolved.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Veracode
    Overall, Veracode support is helpful, community support is great, and documentation is available for self-service. Our Customer Success Manager is very helpful and reaches out regularly to see if we need assistance. We have not utilized many of the other resources offered by Veracode, however, in the future we would like to leverage secure coding training for our Development teams.
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    Implementation Rating
    Tenable
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    Veracode
    We use it as a SAS service, so really just getting our teams to mold the use of Veracode into their SDLC has been a process of years in the making. It comes down to what your teams are ready and willing to accept and change. Management is key in getting their groups on board with using it regularly. If it doesnt have management backing, your security teams have little to no influence in getting this process off the ground fully.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Veracode
    Veracode is slower with scan results however the flaws discovered and sites crawled are almost the same. Rapid7 InsightAppSec only does dynamic scans. Veracode did find more links on a site crawl. Rapid7 InsightAppSec has more out of the box reports than Veracode. Both integration to DevOps tools were striaghtforward.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Tenable
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    Veracode
    No idea
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    Scalability
    Tenable
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    Veracode
    It meets our needs.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Veracode
    • Positive: Scanning all our applications on Veracode provides us an overview of our cyber security posture for the organization as a whole.
    • Positive: Performing the SAST, SCA and DAST scanning for all the applications at the early stages of the SDLC helps us identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities early, reducing the risk of data breaches and cyber-attacks.
    • Negative: Sometimes Veracode SAST scanner closed and reopens some findings, leading to reliability issues on the scanner itself.
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