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Actionable security vs checkbox security
Tenable is a prime example of a ‘checkbox security’ solution that’s mainly focused on ticking functionality boxes - even if it’s in a limited and non-useful way. Tenable is a collection of siloed modules that need to be licensed separately and require you to switch between different consoles. By contrast, Mondoo is one centralized platform that covers your entire IT environment and SDLC - without having to pay for extra modules. Instead of checkbox security, Mondoo actually provides you with actionable findings and streamlined workflows that accelerate remediation and improve your security posture.
Why choose Mondoo over Tenable?
You should choose Mondoo if:
- You prefer a unified platform instead of siloed consoles
- You want to secure your SDLC with more than just IaC scanning
- You want an inventory of what’s in your environment
- You want end-to-end vulnerability management with guided remediation
- You want easy and flexible deployment options
- You want out-of-the-box compliance with industry frameworks
- You want to customize risk prioritization to reflect your business priorities
Features
Features
Easy deployment
Yes, fast and flexible deployment with both agent and agentless options - cloud snapshot scanning for AWS, Azure, and GCP - on-prem, Linux, Windows, and Mac. Mondoo agents are lightweight.
Onboarding some cloud platforms to Tenable Cloud Security may require manual effort and many steps. Tenable agent is resource intensive.
Full coverage
Mondoo covers your entire IT environment (cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and endpoints) and SDLC from code to runtime.
You need to license many different modules such as Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Nessus, and more. Tenable does not offer SaaS security.
Regulatory compliance
Mondoo includes 300+ out-of-the-box templates for compliance frameworks (such as SOC2, PCI DSS, NIS2, HIPAA, and NIST) and CIS benchmarks
Support for a limited number of frameworks with lack of comprehensive visibility.
Ticketing automation
Yes Mondoo integrates with Jira, Zendesk, GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues, Azure DevOps, and any others via email. Mondoo can create tickets for single or multiple assets, automatically validate fixes, and auto-close or reopen tickets as applicable.
Only supports Jira and ServiceNow, no detailed remediation steps, no easy way to create tickets, no way to track and auto-close tickets.
Custom risk prioritization
Yes, Mondoo allows risk factors to be customized and quickly updates scores when changed.
Does not allow fine-tuning of risk prioritization settings
Limited shift left security
Yes, Mondoo offers IaC scanning for Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes manifests, and Dockerfiles with CI/CD integrations. Mondoo also covers code runtimes like Python and NodeJS.
Only limited support for IaC scanning
Exceptions management
Yes, policies and vulnerabilities can be snoozed, mitigated, disabled, or marked as false positives on individual assets or environments.
Limited, the only option is to exclude resources from certain scans.
Third-party security integrations
Yes, Mondoo can ingest and prioritize findings from Microsoft Defender, SentinelOne and Crowdstrike
No third-party ingestion of security findings.
Custom workspaces
Yes, Mondoo allows you to create workspaces based on attributes such as asset name, tag, annotations, platform, platform version, and risk level. Workspaces are automatically updated each time assets are scanned.
Yes through custom dashboards, but the data in the view is often stale and at best days old, because it only gets updated periodically.
