Onapsis vs. Tenable Nessus

As a user, I would recommend Onapsis for people who are shorthanded in security or basis teams. One thing to be clear is that this is not a cheap product but still every penny counts here. If your SAP system has multiple products and connections then Onapsis is a great tool.

Incentivized

Nessus is perfectly suitable for performing comprehensive vulnerability assessment scans being a vulnerability scanner. It is less appropriate for performing penetration testing since it is not a penetration testing tool, it does not have the ability and modules to exploit the vulnerabilities of the system.

Incentivized

• Eliminating the manual process improves the overall accuracy of results and also frees up valuable resources to focus on other different projects.
• Onapsis provides great leverage to our technical teams in order to review in a standardized way of the landscape.
• Onapsis always matches vulnerabilities with useful context and finds possible solutions.
• Onapsis is usually implemented to continuously monitor, and alert us on any issues on the SAP systems. Not only this but implementing Onapsis also eliminates the network on the year-end and month-end audits and helps in making the overall process faster, smooth, efficient as well as accurate.

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• Shows you how to fix certain vulnerabilities and the commands to run.
• Gives you the CVEs that the vulnerabilities are matched to.
• Easy to understand the vulnerabilities list, giving reasons why the issues need to be patched or fixed.

• Multiple UIs
• No proper customization of UI log-off
• Tedious setup of Control component
• No proper error messages received

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• Could use an upgrade within reports.
• Scans can take a long time to complete. Have to break them down in small sections.

Incentivized

Nessus is best and easy to use application for Vulnerabilities finding and reporting, it has multiple platforms and wide scope covering almost all devices for security improvement so far, thus we are very likely to continue its services.

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Tenable Nessus is a great product and provides a lot of value, but it is difficult to set up and use and the amount of data it generates can be overwhelming. It does help us prioritize based on the severity of the detection, however there are sometimes mitigating factors that we have implemented that Nessus does not account for, which causes lots of noise in the reports.

Incentivized

I haven't needed to contact support yet. But issues are easily solved with a quick internet search which means support and by extension, the larger community are involved and knowledgeable.

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There are other tools which we have compared with Onapsis,

1. SAP ETD
2. SAP CVA
3. SecurityBridge

These tools along with the highlighted ones in the above list do not cover all components of Onapsis and as far as we have seen, there is no tool providing the same competencies. It provides good insights, and is constantly updating. On top of that Onapsis Research Labs constantly contributes towards SAP Patch Tuesday regarding multiple "Hot News" vulnerabilities.

Incentivized

Ease of deployment and use even for junior analysts, strong plugin support, and up-to-date CVE coverage, cost-effective licensing, especially for mid-size companies, and seamless integration with the SIEM tool. Overall, Nessus hit the right balance between functionality, performance, and total cost of ownership for our needs and usability.

• Helps in automating the regulatory compliances
• Increases productivity by freeing resources in the firm
• Provides better protection for sensitive information
• Tedious to implement
• Time difference between the ERP systems and Onapsis Appliances may cause an issue
• Difficult to troubleshoot as error messages are not clear

Incentivized

• It has helped identify security flaws in our infrastructure that has helped better secure our client's data. It did so quickly and efficiently so I was able to move on to other tasks.

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