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Guide Tenable Versus Microsoft

The document compares Tenable and Microsoft in terms of vulnerability management, highlighting Tenable's superior coverage, accuracy, and ability to communicate and prioritize risk. Tenable is recognized as the leader in vulnerability management, with extensive reporting capabilities and comprehensive asset coverage, while Microsoft is criticized for its limited functionality and lack of dashboards. Tenable's platform aims to reduce cybersecurity gaps and business risk for its customers.

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Guide Tenable Versus Microsoft

The document compares Tenable and Microsoft in terms of vulnerability management, highlighting Tenable's superior coverage, accuracy, and ability to communicate and prioritize risk. Tenable is recognized as the leader in vulnerability management, with extensive reporting capabilities and comprehensive asset coverage, while Microsoft is criticized for its limited functionality and lack of dashboards. Tenable's platform aims to reduce cybersecurity gaps and business risk for its customers.

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Guide

Tenable versus Microsoft

“Good enough” VM from


Microsoft is not good enough
In March 2022, Tenable Research discovered two vulnerabilities (one
critical) in the Microsoft Azure platform and both were exploitable.
Microsoft downplayed the risk and it took the company 89 days to
privately acknowledge the severity of the issue.

Why customers choose Tenable over Microsoft


Coverage and accuracy
As of January 2025, Tenable Research has published 228,016 plugins → #1 in CVE coverage
covering 94K CVEs, and we continue to update and publish our
vulnerability coverage and CVE count at tenable.com/plugins. → #1 in zero-day research1

→ #1 in vulnerability management
94 K 727 < 24 hrs → Microsoft does not publish its CVE count
Vulnerabilities Vulnerabilities Median time for
assessed with disclosed by coverage of high
227,000+ plugins Tenable Research profile issues

Security beyond the endpoint


Tenable has complete visibility and assessment of the
entire attack surface.

Reducing cyber risk and ensuring compliance requires


understanding across traditional IT to the cloud to
operational technology.

Tenable’s ability to log on to network devices and


check for configuration and setting significantly
reduces the rate of false-positives.

→ Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management


coverage is limited to those endpoints that have
an agent, and its network scanning capability is
SNMP-based.

TENABLE VERSUS MICROSOFT 1


Communicate risk
Tenable enables communication by
providing an extensive library of dashboards
and reports to help facilitate communication
with stakeholders such as, senior
leadership, IT and security colleagues,
auditors, and the board.

→ Microsoft Defender has a lack of


dashboards and reports. Period.

Prioritize risk
→ Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management scores do not consider
Tenable Exposure View combines Tenable’s context like the criticality of an asset on a network, internal and peer
vulnerability priority rating (VPR) with an benchmarking, assessment and remediation maturity.
asset criticality rating (ACR) to objectively
measure the risk of an asset, a business → Microsoft’s recommendations method leads to serious gaps with the
unit, or the whole organization. potential of hundreds if not thousands of suggestions.

Compare Tenable to Microsoft

94K CVEs the industry’s


Vulnerability and coverage accuracy Not published
broadest coverage

Exposure view combines Tenable’s Does not consider important


vulnerability priority rating with an asset Prioritization
business context
criticality score

Wide variety of assets - endpoints,


Limited to the endpoints with an agent
network devices, operational technology Scope of coverage
and basic SNMP-based capability
(OT), cloud workloads, web apps

Extensive library of dashboards


Dashboarding and reporting Lack of dashboards and reports
and reports

Integration and support for the 3rd party Vulnerability management Minimal integration with remediation
remediation tools, remediation workflow tool ecosystem tools like BigFix

Agent-based with limited support for


Agent-based and agentless Scanning technologies
network scanning

TENABLE VERSUS MICROSOFT 2


No. 1 in vulnerability management

IDC ranks Tenable as #1 in worldwide Device Vulnerability


Management market share for the sixth consecutive year

Read the report

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

Read the report

About Tenable
Tenable® is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode
business value, reputation and trust. The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically
unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organizations
to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and
everywhere in between. By protecting enterprises from security exposure, Tenable reduces business
risk for approximately 44,000 customers around the globe. Learn more at www.tenable.com.

Contact Us:
Please email us at [email protected] or visit tenable.com/contact

Sources:
1
Tenable blog link

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