G2 Vendor Directory

Tenable Nessus vs. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricTenable Nessus

by Tenable

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

by CrowdStrike

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count320225
Ease of use9.19.0
Ease of setup9.09.0
Quality of support8.79.1
Meets requirements9.29.2
NPS68.85245973.732719
Small Business27.1%18.8%
Mid-Market39.7%33.2%
Enterprise33.1%48.0%
Total page views1,8721,406
Total LLM citations24,39014,694

Tenable Nessus

Built for security practitioners, by security professionals, Nessus products by Tenable are the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Nessus performs point-in-time assessments to help security professionals quickly and easily identify and fix vulnerabilities, including software flaws, missing patches, malware, and misconfigurations - across a variety of operating systems, devices, and applications.

Pros

  • Vulnerability Identification
  • Vulnerability Detection
  • Automated Scanning
  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • User Interface

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Crowdstrike Falcon Cloud Security is the only CNAPP to stop breaches in the cloud Built for today’s hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Falcon Cloud Security protects the entire cloud attack surface - from code to runtime - by combining continuous agentless visibility with real-time detection and response. At runtime, Falcon Cloud Security delivers best-in-class cloud workload protection and real-time cloud detection and response (CDR) to stop active threats across hybrid environments.

Pros

  • Security
  • Cloud Security
  • Detection Efficiency
  • Vulnerability Detection
  • Ease of Use
  • Cloud Management