Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)

Score7.5 out of 10

29 Reviews and Ratings

What is Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)?

Vulcan Cyber was an exposure and vulnerability risk mitigation platform, acquired by Tenable in early 2025. The product is no longer available for sale, and functionality has been integrated into the Tenable One Exposure Management platform's vulnerability solution.

Categories & Use Cases

Vulnerability Classification
Prioritizing vulnerabilities, to determine which vulnerabilities are most urgent and require a quicker resolution.
Category average: 8.7
IT Asset Realization
Scans a network to identify hardware and software assets on the network.
Category average: 8.5
Threat Analysis
Analyzing known factors such as behavior patterns, affected areas, and other specific features to more easily identify a threat.
Category average: 8.1

Automated Alerts and Reporting
Systems in place to automatically alert, report, or notify of issues that may need timely remediation.
Category average: 8.1
Vulnerability Intelligence
Software that is able to label and store information about vulnerabilities to access for future use cases.
Category average: 8.2
Configuration Monitoring
Constant monitoring of a network set up to identify vulnerabilities as they occur within the network or tech stack on the network.
Category average: 8.3

#1 most frequent

Information

26.3%

5 installations of 19

#2 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

21.1%

4 installations of 19

#3 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

15.8%

3 installations of 19

Michael Cerruti

Data Analyst in Product Management at EC+S European Consulting Plus Services (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Vulcan Cyber solves problems to mitigate cyber-attacks in order to understand the risk and make correct and secure decisions. I have also used it for other needs such as security analysis, threat assessment in general and it is great and always gives good benefits.

Pros

The user interface makes it very easy to use.
It provides a clear picture and helps us to make decisions.
It offers automation and risk visibility.

Cons

I would like the implementation to be much simpler.
It needs improvements in the learning curve and better documentation with more in depth details for better understanding.

Return on Investment

It had a lot of positive repercussions because of the advantages of using it to assess risk, mitiage risk and obtain information on vulnerabilities. And that is excellent.

Other Software Used

TeamViewer, Zoho Analytics

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We review all assets at our disposal for pending severe vulnerabilities. Once we identify the concerned device, we flag it for further review. If vulnerabilities are severe, we cooperate with our internal teams to brainstorm a way of addressing and resolving them. In case there do not seem to be any viable resolutions, we attempt to mitigate the problem as best as we can.

Pros

Vulnerability Management.
Asset Management.
Application Security Posture Management.

Cons

Way to backup/disaster recovery the device in case it is affected more severely.
Remoting the affected devices directly from the web UI.
Anti-malware/Anti-virus.

Return on Investment

Identifies vulnerabilities, and they are easily understood.
Easy to identify remedies in an instant.
You are filtering by different assets.

Alternatives Considered

Acronis Cyber Protect

Other Software Used

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Bamboo, Atlassian Confluence

Verified User

Strategist in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it a single pane for all our vulnerability data as well as an orchestration tool for ticketing. We also can customize risk priority based on internal and external methods.
Previously, different vulnerability scanners had different methods to create tickets to teams, but mostly we used excel files and didn't prioritize what a team needed to fix first.

Pros

Single Pane of Vulnerability Data
Ticketing Automations

Cons

Role Based User Access through SSO
Flexibility in Reporting, creating custom reports
QA on their integrations prior to public release

Return on Investment

Reduced mean time to resolve vulnerabilities by half
Provided visibility to our network vulnerabilities we didn't have before without manually correlating
Saves time on tracking resolution of vulnerabilities because you don't need to rescan to see if work was performed

Alternatives Considered

Nucleus Security

Other Software Used

Qualys VMDR

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Vulcan primarily for tracking vulnerability remediation efforts across our company. It's matrix allows my team to quickly and accurately assess our current trend in remediation and report this t our C-Level leadership in a way that is easy to digest and move on. That coupled with it's impressive asset management feature and CVE searching capabilities makes Vulcan a worth while tool to have in any cyber minded company.

Pros

Asset Tagging and Identification
Matrix and Analytics
Vulnerability Campaign Creation and Tracking

Cons

Available Training Videos/Guides
Artificial Intelligence Integration
Overly Frequent Updates to Existing Features

Return on Investment

Vulcan makes remediation extremely easy to track and prioritize
Vulcan has increased the company's vulnerability awareness
Vulcan helps to reduce the impact those vulnerabilities have on us

Other Software Used

Qualys VMDR, SentinelOne Singularity, SolarWinds Loggly

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Vulcan Cyber to help with the technical debt that has accrued over time with systems that were not maintained as well as they should be. To combat this, we use the campaign feature to keep a running tab on every system to ensure that it is first brought up to standards, and then to maintain them that way.

Pros

Identifies vulnerabilities and they are easily understood.
Easy to identify remedies in an instant.
Campaign feature is a true time saver
Our CSM, Nino, is the best I have ever worked with!

Cons

Deduping of assets could be better.
The weighting of vulnerabilities is hard to describe to non technical executives.
The Business Groups and Tagging needs improvement. Or at least allow tags to be removed if not needed. Now they are static from the API feed.

Return on Investment

Allows much better prioritizing of which assets are most vulnerable
Allow a better understanding of what assets are actually under real threat vs. what is assumed to be vulnerable, but the real world fact is the system would be hard to reach internally, so it's not as vulnerable.

Other Software Used

Qualys VMDR, SentinelOne Singularity

Brinqa

Cisco Vulnerability Management

ServiceNow Security Operations

Nucleus Security

Qualys VMDR

Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)

What is Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)?

Categories & Use Cases