Tenable versus Rapid7

Four times as many customers choose Tenable over Rapid7.¹

Why? Tenable’s proven accuracy, comprehensive coverage and unmatched support for your security needs.

4x, which represents that four times as many customers choose Tenable over Qualys

Why customers choose Tenable over Rapid7

Coverage and accuracy

As of October 2024, Tenable Research has published over 222K plugins covering over 91K CVEs, and we update and publish vulnerability coverage and zero-day research at tenable.com/plugins.

93K K

Vulnerabilities assessed
with 225,000+ plugins

725

Vulnerabilities disclosed
by Tenable Research

< 24 hrs

Median time for coverage
of high profile issues

"The biggest difference between Tenable and Rapid7 [is] its coverage…The way that the information is presented and how [Tenable] helps us prioritize the risk of certain assets and components [makes] it a better tool [than Rapid7]. "

Senior security engineer, insurance company

Vulnerability management innovation

Introduced in 2024, Vulnerability Intelligence offers granular intelligence on vulnerabilities, including tracking vulnerability history to see changes over time.

Exposure Response enables customers to uniquely track risk remediation with SLAs, instead of relying on cumulative risk scores. Tenable provides a single end-to-end workflow and takes a risk-based approach regardless of patch availability.

Rapid7 lacks deep vulnerability intelligence, resulting in inaccurate and missing results

Rapid7’s goals, SLAs, and remediation projects are separate features.

Rapid7 remediation projects are focused on patches.

Vision beyond vulnerability management

Tenable has broadened its traditional vulnerability management strengths, adding: external attack surface management (EASM), cloud security, industrial OT security, and identity systems/Active Directory (AD) security. Tenable has the best coverage across the entire attack surface.

“When it came to operational technology …that's where Tenable won… When it comes to the cloud area, Tenable was by far the best solution of the finalists.”

Vulnerability management architect at the German manufacturing company²

Rapid7 lacks the capability to see Active Directory and Entra ID environments and doesn’t offer Operation Technology security.

Service and support

The vast majority of customers who moved from Rapid7 to Tenable were frustrated with support quality.³

Tenable customers say the ability to pay for a level of support and receive what you’ve paid for is a tremendous benefit.

“Rapid7's support was being difficult… One of the things that we were looking for was a company with a good track record for support. In my past experience, Tenable did a pretty good job of keeping up support.”

Security engineer, public university⁴

Hexagon containing the number 1, because Tenable is number 1 in vulnerability management

Leader in compliance

Tenable leads Rapid7 in CIS benchmark coverage — 200 total (82%).

Tenable supports PCI DSS compliance by providing an integrated and streamlined vulnerability management and PCI ASV solution.

82 %

CIS Benchmarks

100 K

audit checks

1297

audits published

“With Tenable, we found that we could do [PCI scanning] within the solution provided. If we had gone with Rapid7,
they don't do [PCI scanning].”

Security infrastructure manager, business process outsourcing company⁵

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Overall asset coverage

Wide variety of assets: endpoints, network devices, operation technology (OT), identity systems, cloud workloads, web apps

Lacks coverage for operational technology (OT) devices, identity security systems and Azure AD

Cloud security identity protection

Extensive and leading CIEM capabilities

Lacks CIEM capabilities

Exposure management analytics

Tenable One is an exposure management platform that combines integrated risk metrics across vulnerability management, web application security (WAS), cloud, identity, OT and attack surface management

Doesn’t offer OT and identity systems management.

Internal and peer benchmarking

Enables organizations to benchmark themselves internally and against industry peers

Not offered

Prioritization and asset criticality

Vulnerability priority rating (VPR) leverages threat, vulnerability and asset data to predict vulnerability exploitation risk

Confusing and non-intuitive asset criticality scores make it harder to prioritize critical vulnerabilities

Vulnerability intelligence

Provides rich vital context on any given vulnerability including the likelihood of exploitation and potential impact

Lacks a robust vulnerability database with enriched metadata and advanced search/filtering capabilities

PCI DSS compliance

Offers integrated and streamlined vulnerability management and PCI ASV solution to comply with PCI DSS requirements

Not offered by Rapid7

On-prem and cloud coverage

Offers both on-prem (Tenable Security Center) and cloud (Tenable Vulnerability Management) options

Prioritizing cloud-based InsightVM over the on-prem Nexpose⁶

Partner ecosystem

100% committed to partners, 125 partners and 250 pre-built integrations

Rapid7 sunsetted integrations with BeyondTrust and doesn’t support popular tech like HashiCorp or HCL BigFix⁷

Patch management and remediation

Fully-fledged patch management integrated with Tenable Vulnerability Management, as well as integration with the leading third-party remediation tools

Not offered by Rapid7, limited support for third-party tools

No. 1 in vulnerability management

IDC ranks Tenable as #1 in worldwide Device Vulnerability Management market share for the sixth consecutive year

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Tenable named a leading force in vulnerability management and top-ranked among 13 vendors in the Growth and Innovation indexes in the Frost Radar, Vulnerability Management, 2023

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Competitive Guide: Security Leaders’ Guide to Comparing Tenable and Rapid7

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1 - Tenable source, Rapid7 source 2 - Internal customer interview 3 - Internal survey 4 - Internal customer interview 5 - Internal customer interview 6 - Rapid7 blog 7 - Rapid7 technology partners

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Tenable versus Rapid7

Four times as many customers choose Tenable over Rapid7.1

Why customers choose Tenable over Rapid7

Coverage and accuracy

93K K

725

< 24 hrs

Vulnerability management innovation

Vision beyond vulnerability management

Service and support

Leader in compliance

82 %

100 K

1297

Compare Tenable to Rapid7

Overall asset coverage

Cloud security identity protection

Exposure management analytics

Internal and peer benchmarking

Prioritization and asset criticality

Vulnerability intelligence

PCI DSS compliance

On-prem and cloud coverage

Partner ecosystem

Patch management and remediation

No. 1 in vulnerability management

IDC ranks Tenable as #1 in worldwide Device Vulnerability Management market share for the sixth consecutive year

Tenable named a leading force in vulnerability management and top-ranked among 13 vendors in the Growth and Innovation indexes in the Frost Radar, Vulnerability Management, 2023

Competitive Guide: Security Leaders’ Guide to Comparing Tenable and Rapid7

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