CloudAware vs Tenable Security Center comparison

CloudAware and Tenable are both solutions in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category. CloudAware is ranked #27 with an average rating of 9.0, while Tenable is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.1. CloudAware holds a 0.3% mindshare in CSPM, compared to Tenable’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CloudAware users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Tenable users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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96% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between CloudAware and Tenable Security Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

CloudAware

Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

27th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (34th)

Tenable Security Center

Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

14th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (6th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category, the mindshare of CloudAware is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Security Center is 1.8%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tenable Security Center	1.8%
CloudAware	0.3%
Other	97.9%

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Featured Reviews

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

Cloud cost visibility has improved and workload assessments now support stronger business cases

I am looking forward to more workload observability. The second thing is mostly looking forward to know cost optimization and how we can be able to manage multiple hyperscaler workloads from a single platform. I am looking forward to a monitoring solution that can monitor all hyperscaler services because AWS does have their 250 plus managed services offering. We have workload running in Kubernetes, Docker, EC2, RDS. I need a single platform that will monitor all these services which are being running in the cloud platform. Customer support is good. Whenever I have interacted with them, I got the required response from them. That is pretty much good. The organizations that are looking forward and have enterprise grade workload running in their public cloud platform, I would definitely recommend them to start using CloudAware because that is going to bring in value addition for them which they might not be aware of while using by themselves.

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reviewer1534134

Head of Information Security at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Centralized analytics have strengthened patch visibility and support efficient regulatory reporting

From my experience, I assess the product's analytics capabilities as successful. It helped us significantly with patching and managing the risk of the patching process across all our environments, including network devices with Windows and Unix systems. The product covered several environments and gave us exactly what we needed in our environment. Tenable Security Center's centralized platform helped with risk assessment and management across our IT environments. It covered the patching process, and we previously faced many issues regarding how to patch different environments, how to monitor the patching process, and whether it was successful or not. We obtained good reports showing when patches were closed and the details of each patch, including who executed it and everything related to the patching process until it was closed. This gave us good details about the process which helped us significantly in our reporting and even in audits, whether internal or external. We learned how to close audit issues safely and successfully. We used the dashboards for real-time threat insights and extracted several dashboards from Tenable Security Center. We use these dashboards in our cybersecurity dashboard and committees that we have. These dashboards are part of our committees, especially the cybersecurity committee and other committees that we attend.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I utilized it in one of the use cases for workload assessment and definitely it has brought in the value as a return of investment to us, because that was the assessment I was doing for one of our end customers."

"Tenable Security Center supports a wide range of applications and servers, capable of comprehensive scanning and handling of vulnerabilities."

"Tenable is the leading product for vulnerability scanning."

"The solution is completely stable and operation is user-friendly."

"I find Tenable SC to be a very scalable product."

"This solution has given us visibility of the vulnerability in our network and shows what needs to be done to negate the vulnerabilities by providing links to the solution for those issues, so we are now able to manage our vulnerabilities better by identifying them, prioritizing them, and then negating them, which has improved our security posture."

"This solution has a much lower rate of false positives compared to competing products."

"This product has the best results in terms of the lowest number of false-positives and false-negatives."

"Support is knowledgeable."

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Cons

"I am looking forward for a positive contribution because as per the research I did so far, it is going to benefit us if we start utilizing it, but I am a little concerned of whether it will fit in all our requirements."

"They are not currently handling call flows properly. Some call flows are being deleted from the registry but still show as active."

"The product could be user-friendly, and they could enhance the web application's security features."

"The biggest issue I have with the solution is when I'm using the scanning it picks up the original DNS of that device."

"I think the company should redo their web page because the way things are now there are a lot of things you can't do."

"For downloading reports, we have to go to the scan and then we have to go to the reports and download the Excel or CSV or PDF. I think these menus and clicks can be minimized."

"The solution should include compliance-based scanning."

"Its reporting can be improved. It is not easy to generate a scan report the way we want."

"We would like to see the inclusion of external IPs and simplified reporting that's easier to deal with"

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We pay around 60,000 on a yearly basis."

"The price can start at €10,000 ($13,000 USD) for between 500 and 1,000 assets, and the price can climb into the millions as more assets are added."

"Though reasonable, the main competitor of Tenable SC, Rapid7, offers a more aggressive and better priced product."

"The tool costs around 15,000 Saudi riyals monthly."

"I would rate the pricing a nine out of ten, where ten is expensive. It is the most expensive tool my company is using."

"I use a local license to perform penetration testing and I'm pretty happy with everything when it comes to pricing and licensing."

"For 500 users the licensing fee is roughly $100,000."

"The licensing costs for this solution are approximately $100,000 US, and I think that covers everything."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

No data available

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	27

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudAware?

That is pretty much good. I found it quite reasonable from the cost perspective.

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What needs improvement with CloudAware?

I am not exactly using CloudAware. I am looking forward to know about what CloudAware is doing. I need some cost optimization solution for a workload running in AWS. I want better dashboards and al...

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What is your primary use case for CloudAware?

We have almost 1 million of ARR workload running in AWS which includes 100 to 200 virtual machines as EC2 and RDS. We are struggling to map what exactly the cost optimization strategy we need to fo...

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What do you like most about Tenable SC?

The tool's dashboard and reporting capabilities match our company's needs since we are able to modify the basic view to create a new dashboard, and it works out very well for our needs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tenable SC?

The price of Tenable Security Center is not so high; it's relatively a cheaper solution.

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What needs improvement with Tenable SC?

We did conduct a long implementation which relates to what I think can be improved about Tenable Security Center. In some cases, we needed to refer back to Tenable itself, and in other cases, we ne...

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Also Known As

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Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter

Overview

CloudAware offers robust cloud management solutions, enabling efficient infrastructure monitoring, cost optimization, and compliance adherence across various platforms. Users appreciate its CMDB for resource tracking, automated security protocols, and enhanced cost management features, which collectively enhance operational efficiency and foster better team collaboration.

CloudAware

Get a risk-based view of your IT, security and compliance posture so you can quickly identify, investigate and prioritize your most critical assets and vulnerabilities.

Managed on-premises and powered by Nessus technology, the Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc) suite of products provides the industry’s most comprehensive vulnerability coverage with real-time continuous assessment of your network. It’s your complete end-to-end vulnerability management solution.

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Sample Customers

Sony, AOL, Thomson Reuters, Pearson

IBM, Sempra Energy, Microsoft, Apple, Adidas, Union Pacific

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