Tenable One vs. ThreatConnect: Which is Best?

Tenable.IO effectively addresses the challenge of understanding risks and prioritizing vulnerability management. By utilizing the product, organizations can gain valuable insights into their security posture, enabling them to focus on mitigating the most critical vulnerabilities and reducing overall risk exposure.

I appreciate that Tenable.IO offers exceptional reporting and dashboard capabilities, which make it easy to comprehend and prioritize remediation efforts based on risk assessment.

Although not a specific issue with Tenable.IO itself, it is worth noting that better results can be achieved using agents for vulnerability detection compared to active scanning.

Tenable.io effectively addresses the challenges of scanning, reporting, and monitoring the progress of remediation efforts. Its straightforward setup allows for easy scheduling, allowing Tenable to perform its scanning tasks autonomously. While it is still advisable to review the results in the console, scheduled reports are also available for convenience.

I appreciate that Tenable.io is a reliable and effective solution that seamlessly performs its intended functions. It offers the flexibility to deploy internal scanners or utilize their cloud-hosted scanners for external perimeter scanning. Tenable consistently stays updated with current events, regularly providing new plugins to detect the latest vulnerabilities.

While Tenable.io continually works on expanding its functionality, some tweaks are being made to the console. This includes the addition of more reporting, dashboards, and remediation scans. Additionally, the presence of both old and new methods of tagging and grouping can be confusing for new users. However, I believe efforts are being made to address this issue and streamline the process.

For a small team, ThreatConnect proved effective in scaling and managing enterprise threat intelligence and threat hunting capabilities. However, as the complexity of Playbook design and integration increased, the software's potential was hindered, preventing the team from fully maximizing its benefits.

ThreatConnect offered the ability to gather, analyze, enhance, and distribute various types of data related to cybersecurity incidents and indicators of compromise across different customer environments. It allowed for tasks such as uploading a domain name, checking it against threat feeds, and enriching the data with additional information like news articles, reports, attribution, and determining the domain's prevalence across multiple client setups.

One of the drawbacks we encountered was the confusion and lack of proper documentation regarding the Playbooks that facilitated enrichment and integration with third-party tools like SIEM. The visual representation of coding concepts, where blocks were connected to one another, was intended to assist non-programmers in developing their capabilities. In reality, a more code-centric approach to Playbook development would have been more beneficial. We found ourselves with numerous questions and minimal guidance on how to address simple problems that could be easily tackled using Python.

Consider this risk management system that offers numerous possibilities for effortless detection of high-risk threats and a platform for record-keeping.

It is convenient for any company to efficiently prioritize potential high-risk issues. Additionally, it simplifies record maintenance, and ThreatConnect facilitates easy threat detection through actionable analysis.

There were no significant issues encountered during the implementation of ThreatConnect, and it even facilitated learning about the tools.