Lacework vs. Tenable Vulnerability Management

Lacework is well suited for behavioral analysis. One thing to consider thought is in the early stages there will be quite a bit of noise generated by Lacework. There will be a higher volume alerts generated initially - until a good baseline is generated. Overall Lacework is good with alert handling - integration with Slack is good.

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Tenable.io is a cost effective Internal and External scanner. The Internal scanner came with a .ova, so it was very simple and quick to deploy it into our ESXi environment. It has a cloud-based dashboard for management and the internal scanner is configured to auto-update from Tenable.io. The license came with 4 External PCI scans (with remediation) a year.

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• The detailed visibility of all our container across multiple accounts is great.
• Anomaly-based detection allows us to focus our efforts and time on other events. Integrations with Jira, Slack, etc. are very easy to set up.
• The lacework team is very helpful before and during purchase.

• Wide range of capabilities that can be customized to fit each user's environment and needs
• Provides high-quality data and insights into detected vulnerabilities
• Great customer support

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• Not all runtime behaviour alerts offer enough data to decide whether or not something is malicious. Having even more data (e.g., what process is doing a specific action) would help.

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• Configuration is not always intuitive, but the comprehensive training and documentation comes to the rescue.
• The mix of classic and beta UIs currently is confusing and we find the classic UI is actually better.

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We like to renew tenable each year we have had it so far.

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Overall it is good, it took a little while to understand it and figure things out but once you have a good grasp on it then, it is very good.

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Support is usually really great at walking you through any steps you need to take when you get stuck on something. There are a few false positives and errors that have come up over the years that required their help to get through. Unfortunately, the steps required to diagnose some problems are more tedious than I think should be necessary. (IE: SQL instances can throw errors that clog up your logs because one plugin affects it in a certain way. The process to diagnose this is to watch timestamps of plugins in a log while monitoring the SQL logs at the same time and using your best guess as to what is causing it.)

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Compared to Sysdig Falco (the free open-source IDS), Lacework helps security teams by providing actionable alerts and a user-friendly interface that gives you an overview of all workloads being monitored, and detailed insights into these workloads if needed. Falco requires you to build your own integration and interface around it, including a mechanism to whitelist certain alerts. This made it harder for the security team to focus their time on potential intrusions.

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I think Tenable and Qualys have a lot of similarities, I continue to go back to Tenable because of my familiarity and comfort level with it. I've also used a company called SecurityMetrics which has vulnerability scanning included but it is not as comprehensive as Tenable.

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• Being a FinTech company, financial institutions who partner with us want to know that we are appropriately maintaining a Security, Risk and Compliance program that maintains a level of comfort for their vendor management. Lacework gives us the ability to monitor and maintain a level of security for our infrastructure that puts our partners at ease, reduces the revenue cycle for new partners and opens doors to the future.

• We're able to mitigate over 90% of our vulnerability risk without too much effort. It helps find where automated patching fails and we can plan a fix from the findings.
• A side effect of our scanning reveals new devices on our network that aren't cleared to be.

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