# Pentera Reviews **Vendor:** Pentera **Category:** [Penetration Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/penetration-testing-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 174 ## About Pentera Pentera is the category leader for Automated Security Validation, allowing every organization to test with ease the integrity of all cybersecurity layers, unfolding true, current security exposures at any moment, at any scale. Thousands of security professionals and service providers around the world use Pentera to guide remediation and close security gaps before they are exploited. Its customers include Casey's General Stores, Emeria, LuLu International Exchange, IP Telecom PT, BrewDog, City National Bank, Schmitz Cargobull, and MBC Group. Pentera is backed by leading investors such as K1 Investment Management, Insight Partners, Blackstone, Evolution Equity Partners, and AWZ. Visit https://pentera.io for more information. ## Pentera Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Pentera's **ease of use** exceptional due to automation, customization, and a simple interface for effective navigation. (9 reviews) - Users find Pentera’s **automated vulnerability identification** user-friendly, providing detailed remediation guidance for various scenarios. (8 reviews) - Users value the **automation and scheduling capabilities** of Pentera, enhancing usability and efficiency for diverse scenarios. (7 reviews) - Users value the **above average customer support** of Pentera, enhancing their experience with seamless integration and effective assistance. (7 reviews) - Users value the **robust security validation** of Pentera, enhancing overall security through continuous testing and improvement. (6 reviews) - Features (5 reviews) - Users value the **vulnerability detection capabilities** of Pentera, identifying unseen threats and enhancing network security. (5 reviews) - Automated Scanning (4 reviews) - Cybersecurity (4 reviews) - Efficiency (4 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **reporting inadequate** , especially for enterprise-level insights, needing significant improvements for better usability. (3 reviews) - Users express concerns over the **lack of user permission granularity** and insufficient role-based access control in Pentera. (2 reviews) - Users note the need for **improvement in managing false positives** , though overall satisfaction with the product remains high. (2 reviews) - Users find the **limited reporting** in Pentera lacking, especially for enterprise-level assessments and multi-environment analysis. (2 reviews) - Users report a **lack of missing features** , including limited updates and insufficient user access control options. (2 reviews) - Poor Reporting (2 reviews) - Users report **issues with reporting** , particularly a lack of Spanish translation for reports affecting accessibility. (2 reviews) - Resource Intensive (2 reviews) - Users experience **technical issues** such as bugs and heavy updates, which can disrupt functionality and require restarts. (2 reviews) - Access Restrictions (1 reviews) ## Pentera Reviews ### 1. Quickly pentest without false positives **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge G. | Cibersecurity Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Its speed and intuitive, the best is graphical tree of vulnerabilities **What do you dislike about Pentera?** We have had some difficulty installing it due to bastion and OS issues **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pentest of a lot of servers in few minutes ### 2. You gian visibility and IT Admins/Devs start to trust you **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raphael R. | SOC Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** All the achievements Pentera gets are actionable! No more asking IT Admins and Developers to patch things that can be exploited in you environment. Brings agility to your vulnerability/exploitability management processes. New exploits are released with every new version and seems to be up to pace with current trends. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** No downsides. You can only win. The worst thing you will get is a lot of things to mitigate. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visibility on what's going on in the network during the test, spoofing, relay attacks. And the fact the during the scan the tool "learns" and use any information it gets to launch new attacks. It differs from normal vulnerability scanners. ### 3. A good solution, some caveats **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Ease of creating and running testing scenarios. Detection for a wide range of vulnerabilities, including ransomware scenarios (Conti, Maze, REvil, Lockbit). Remediation wiki very detailed, whenever present. Top notch customer support. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Lack of new vulnerabilities and TTPs added monthly. Lack of a robust RBAC system to give partial rights to users. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pentera helps us find the most exploitable vulnerabilities in our environment to prioritize remediation efforts. ### 4. This tool uses more intelligence than others on the market, this allows you to to be more assertive **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Felipe E. | Cyber Security Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The possibility of automating my attacks, Pentera can use more intelligence, such as collecting my password policy, knowing how many days until my password expires, looking for leaks before that time, testing these credentials on all my login pages, trying to exploit extra, in short, it saves me a lot of time. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** It still doesn't perform all the blackbox phases, as it is safe by design and doesn't yet perform techniques that can generate impact and that a true black hat would do, such as buffer overflow and other types. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pentera helps me with 80% of the pentests I perform. ### 5. Red teams at your fingertips **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The interface is simple, easy to navigate and utilize. It provides great tools to deep dive onto your architecture. Extremely powerful the set of scan provided out of the box **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Sometimes the upgrade in place does not work as expected. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do not have enough and skilled resources to do what Pentera provides automatically. ### 6. Pentera allows us to PenTest environment very easily. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincent A. | Security Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The ability to test various networks and receive technical feedback along with recommendations. Also the use of PW cracking node allows up to keep user accounts secure. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Lack of a GUI showing scheduled tasks to avoid multiple tasks running. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing additional data for management to understand current risk. ### 7. Penetration Testing on steroids **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephan H. | IT project & process manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** More than vulnerability scanning: Execute full attack chains and see the impact on your environment. Way more powerful and precise than a common manual penetration test: Check all your Servers and Clients with a bunch of attack vectors instead of just cherry picking a few to show off your advertised security level. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Reporting capabilities and KPIs to monitor remidiation progress could be improved in order to help communication with non security experts. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Get a broader and more precise picture of the security state and identify weak protocols, devices, services and credentials. ### 8. Pentera user for last 3 years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The way that reporting is done really helps you identify what steps to take to remediate the problems it found. Old pen test reports or Nessus scans just give you a big list or possible issues. Pentera has that in the background, but prioritizes what was successful and what fixes will have the biggest impact. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Upgrades between major versions can be cumbersome, but support has been good. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us achieve and maintain our ISO 27001 certification. It also helps us address misconfigurations and have confidence our security is working. ### 9. The best security and validation product. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zachary L. | AVP IT and CISO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** I can continually evaluate my security posture and I receive remediation instructions for vulnerabilities. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** It used to be there was no cloud testing component but they resolved that by offering a new module earlier this year. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated pen testing and allowing me to do this repeatedly and quickly. ### 10. Best Software what you can imagen **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandor Z. | Information Technology System Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** It really shows your company security weakness and gives you the solution how to fix the Vulnerabities **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Nothing everything works well, product is working well. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** It shows for example if you have too many admin accounts, you can check who is really need and who doesnt. ### 11. Automation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John A. | Security Solution Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** No matter how well you think you've secured your environment, you can only know this by validation. pentera offers this in an easy to use and intuitive manner which is continuous and automated. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Reporting. Need a way to link multiple similar tests and display resultant report- or better still export this consolidated view via apis and into a BI dashboard solution ;) **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** cVs of legacy. Finding rubbish passwords. Informing us that our environment is not secure in the slightest. ### 12. Great company and amazing products **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Falk S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Pentera is a great company, all the colleagues are very friendly and helpful. Also their product is amazing. Since typical pentests show theoretical vulnerabilities, pentera proofs and validates. The session end with a list a captured passwords and servers. Also the complete attack path is shown. Concrete results and proofs instead of "could" and "may". **What do you dislike about Pentera?** The update process could be more straightforward. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** It shows the vulnerabilities and flaws in our IT infrastructure. ### 13. Validation is given, not a given. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Its a proof of concept. Theoretical breaches worked out and tested. Insightful, logical, both technical and non technical people will be able to understand the output, with a little help. But what i like best are the People and their support and enthousiasm. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Getting it up and running in a secure environment was troublesome because of some bugs. But its part of the project. We learn. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Challenging our suppliers with validated reports. ### 14. Awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Claes G. | It security analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** To verify the security posture and get a proper look of how patches are doing. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Sometimes Hard to motivate the Cost to the executives **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps us validate and not only rely on VA scans. ### 15. Disruptive Technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mauro S. | Sales director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** It can change the standard va pt approach to verify the level of resilience of an organization **What do you dislike about Pentera?** No limit specially if used by professional red team expert **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Safe real no agent required ### 16. Easy to use security validation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Easy to use. With little effort, you can quickly obtain good initial pointers for securing your systems. With the good support, it quickly goes into depth and can also check and regularly repeat more complicated attack scenarios **What do you dislike about Pentera?** The UI is not responsive and with High Resolution displays (greater 2K) it is not yet good readable anymore. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good and fast overview over the network and systems. Mostly missconfigurated systems ### 17. Very Efficient Security Vulnerability Assessment!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ruben A. | Head of the Secure Development Unit, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Black Box Scan and Custom Scan works fine for me. The executed payloads show the obtaining of critical vulnerabilities obtained through privilege escalation from other vulnerabilities, graphically visible through a flow of vulnerabilities **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Both ing dor the moment. Only that when a scan is running, i can not executioner other **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manual pentesting in Telefónica Innovación Digital services. The main benefit is the high ROI obtained ### 18. Intense **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan P. | Incident Response Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Exploitation of the services after the reconainassance **What do you dislike about Pentera?** For example the API of the Pentera Surface **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** For example, the problem that was not able to identify different web application contexts ### 19. Pentera **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luca R. | Senior Cyber Security Assurance Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** It lets you automate security validation in a matter of minutes with no specific knowledge required and you learn a lot along the process; it amplifies red teams reach and capacity and let them focus their effort where it makes most sense **What do you dislike about Pentera?** I'd like it to disclose more details about its activity, but I understand additional constraints exist to prevent that **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** adding capacity to the tean ### 20. Exploitation valitation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antoine D. | Cyber expert and project manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Acquiring multiple information systems, it is really useful to be able to scan them and discover the pain point vulnerabilities and prioritise the remediation of quick wins **What do you dislike about Pentera?** As the aim is to validate exploitation, it does not answer vulnerability scan requirements of reglementation **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** It shows the attack path that can be exploited and allows to quickly find the best way to remediate it and control it ### 21. Pentera great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anastasio S. | Information Security & Cybersecurity Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** It does help us to find non-managed or undiscovered vulnerabilities automatically in our networks and to prioritize others known based on a attack-vector basis. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Is does not provide ability to perform parallel scans or to pause a scan and run another one and then resume the first one. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is finding unmanaged assets / unknown vulnerabilities and helping us to prioritize the mitigation efforts ### 22. Essencial tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo R. | Security Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Powerful insights on the network security. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** The setup can be challenging but we have a great help. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Patching vulnerabilities ### 23. Great and disruptive tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The fact that it uses a continue validation strategy that helps you to always be aware of your security posture. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** You can only run one testing scenario at a time (non-parallel testing) **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** It keeps the organization aware of risks based on impact, so we can focus on the vulnerabilities that may cause a bigger impact ### 24. Automated penetration testing that delivers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** It has an easy to use interface, but goes into depth with both the exploits and reporting. The remediation wiki puts it above other solutions. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** I would like the external and internal tests to be a bit easier to conduct together. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to validate our security posture on a regular basis. ### 25. A big experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xavier R. | Cybersecurity department, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The number of options the application can offer has nothing to do with the rest of its competitors in the sector. The added value in incident resolution and the automatic execution of exploits gives it significant importance. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Nothing, maybe the price. But is just over the competitors **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cyberattacks ### 26. Faster Pentest Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The support Team is very friendly and give you all the help at the moment to setup the tool, after that you can go by your self **What do you dislike about Pentera?** The use of an specific Linux can be a challenge in the rollout of the tool **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visibility of the Risk in my organization ### 27. great product that valiates your security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael S. | IT Security Manager global, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Pentera is a great company, all the colleagues are very friendly and helpful. They deliver a great product to valitate your IT security **What do you dislike about Pentera?** The product is pretty pricy and not that easy to handle **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's validating our changes to get an overview about our security strategy ### 28. Good PenteraCon 2024 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rene S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Pentera Core, Ransomware Ready, Credentials Exposure. I would also like to use Surface in the future. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Nothing, the whole company is really cool. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pentera Core is not only a Vulnerability Scanner is more is real Pentesting. With Pentera we didn't need a external pentesting Company anymore. ### 29. Interesting and effective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Henry D. | Corporate Information Security Officer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Effective pentesting that saves me a lot of time and effort. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** To be honest, nothing as far. Sometimes the updates fail but that is due to the minimal system requirements beeing set too low. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** The lack of people working security internal. Pentera covers that gap ### 30. Pentera - great validation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The tool is great for security validation. However the unique selling point is the support from the solutions architects who are on available to help with all alerts of Pentera. They are an extension of the team giving an extra skillset, **What do you dislike about Pentera?** You will find out you have a lot of extra work ahead of you. Although this is actually good as you can identify exploitable vulnerabilities in your environment. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to run penetration tests regularly, and validate our security controls. ### 31. Rapid 'Real risk' reduction **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew L. | Global Cyber Security Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The ability to rapidly see what our real risks are and how we can take practical actions to reduce them **What do you dislike about Pentera?** That I can't run multiple tests at the same time. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Understanding how we can prioritise what risks we deal with and when. ### 32. The tool that made my day 100X quickee **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan G. | Worker, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Using pentera allows me to shorten the time it takes to assess my customers from weeks to days, it's irreplaceable in our workload **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Need more than 10 ip ranges as we intent to sell to more customers **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** MSP Pentesting as a service ### 33. Vulnerability checker **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hare B. | CRM, Industrial Automation, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Automatically cheak your Security layer of your host and and detect unusually activity and attact acesse report in realtime . **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Till now not found any bug or dislike for this app it's have all future like other **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** In dashboard you can put IP address and schedule your time frame pantera do the rest . It's algorithms can decet and summary it's security bridging layer and can be configured from root ### 34. My first time attending penteracon and it was a good time to network and learn about roadmaps. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Catherine T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** We resell Pentera and client starting to see the value of the tool. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** None as of now. We will reach out if necessary. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a reseller so this is a good offering to customers looking at ASV and BAS ### 35. Enjoying the conference and the networking **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian B. | CEO and Founder, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** We like the automatic testing from the product very well. Plus the priorities which are give to solve the findings. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Not much that we dislike, but the price of the product is a bit high. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding the open doors ### 36. Security on track **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Pentera is a dynamic and reliable team. The software provides a huge benefit to every environment. You can redteam and blueteam together easily. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** The price is huge if you own a big environment. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seeing all hosts in our network ### 37. Only Pentera **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roy R. | IT Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Working with the pentera has helps us a lot as an organization **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Nothing, everything is perfect I really like working with the pentera **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pantera was able to find me many things that I didn't know could be causing problems ### 38. Pentera automates the scanning and validation of your IT security posture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mathew N. | Security Operations and IT Network Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** It's ease of use and robust capabilities. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** There is a bit of a learning curve to use all of its features appropriately. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our annual pentesting has become monthly in order to bridge the knowledge gap between tests. ### 39. Mean time to results **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Pentera has helped me so much by putting time back in my working day and the excellent wiki articles can be use by junior technicians to get your remediation done at all skill levels. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Testing only one type of test at a time. (Parallel testing in multiple locations) and automated testing that still requires approval **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pentera is instrumental in pointing out weaknesses in my infrastructure which is laying the foundation to our NIS2 journey ### 40. Good product to automate 80% and fokus on the important rest **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** - you can see real issues with real impacts - you can easily revalidate your findings - you get good Support - it uses solid known Technology **What do you dislike about Pentera?** As of now in big and complex Environments you have to compromise a Bit or find small compromises. This is one of the topics, tackled by the current road map 2024/2025 **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reducing costs and time and making vulnerabilty Management and pentesting possible for small Teams. ### 41. The best solution for automated pentesting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** It's a very capable tool. It's fast and easy to use. Clearly readable reports are provided. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** It's on the expensive side, I imagine. Rather high min number of users. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Validation, compliance checking, threat exposure ### 42. An essential product for corporate cybersecurity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alfio S. | Cybersecurity Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** A product that carries out complete VAPTs with the utmost simplicity, and by analyzing the vulnerabilities proposes the necessary remediations in a clear and timely manner. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Nothing in particular................... **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing in particular to report. ### 43. Reliable and thorough **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Klaus-E. K. | Information Security Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** I can pentest our company pb a regular basis **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Only one scan can run at a time, does not support tenants **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to discover possible aatack vectors and shows how to mitigate them ### 44. The magic way to do Pentest **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mireia F. | Cybersecurity manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** UX amazing, easy and magic. You find thingsthat you never find with other tools **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Bothing for the moment. I haven't enought time to find it **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Find vulnerabilities and prioriza actions to do ### 45. Good. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Davide D. | Director of IT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Vision. A good vision is the core in the way to create a complex cyber environment. **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Nothing to date. So, it is hard to arrive to 25 chars. **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automate this process. ### 46. Pentera for security validation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shawn M. | Vice President, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The new cloud feature where we can look to validate the cloud posture **What do you dislike about Pentera?** The reporting aspect needs a bit more work for C suite level **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Validate posture before a pen test ### 47. PenteraCon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler E. | Information Security Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** I like how Pentera allows me to find vulnerabilities I wasn't aware existed **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Not being able to export data from the ADPA results **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping me find vulnerabilities in our environment ### 48. Pentera has changed my executive reporting for the better **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Grant B. | Threat and Vulnerability Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** Being able to utilise pentera to better explain the security controls and investments made by executives has improved my working life dramatically **What do you dislike about Pentera?** The default reporting outputs need improvements **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Priorities ### 49. Teamleader **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex R. | Systemadministrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The priorisation of vulnerabilities and the ease of use **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Sometimes buggy :( Exports can't be imported with different versions **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapping the attack surface and the low hanging fruits ### 50. Makes security easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew H. | Chief Executive Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Pentera?** The ability to validate all of my security posture in one application **What do you dislike about Pentera?** Nothing at all....great software throughout **What problems is Pentera solving and how is that benefiting you?** Validate all my security products so understand what is best. - [View Pentera pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/pentera/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-29+16%3A28%3A03+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=431becfd-f2e9-45d9-86dc-5bedc79a1b1f&secure%5Btoken%5D=5081d0d00f3b4db6d29720241593244610d386375390a4f4300928bc03fdfc99&format=llm_user) ## Pentera Integrations - [IBM QRadar SIEM](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-ibm-qradar-siem/reviews) ## Pentera Features **Administration** - API / Integrations - Reporting and Analytics **Performance** - Automated Scans **Simulation** - Test Agent Deployment - Attack Simulation - Resolution Guidance **Risk Analysis** - Risk Scoring - Reporting - Risk-Prioritization **Configuration** - Configuration Monitoring - Unified Policy Management **Asset Management** - Asset Discovery - Shadow IT Detection **Generative AI - Exposure Management Platforms** - Predictive Analytics - Automated Threat Detection **Orchestration** - Asset Management - Security Workflow Automation - Deployment **Cloud Visibility** - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Analysis** - Issue Tracking - Reconnaissance - Vulnerability Scan **Network** - Compliance Testing - Perimeter Scanning **Customization** - Multi-Vector Assessment - Scenario Customization - Range of Attack Types **Vulnerability Assesment** - Vulnerability Scanning - Vulnerability Intelligence - Contextual Data - Dashboards **Visibility** - Multicloud Visibility - Asset Discovery **Monitoring** - Gap Analysis - Vulnerability Intelligence - Compliance Monitoring - Continuous Monitoring **Risk Identification and Assessment - Exposure Management Platforms** - Comprehensive Risk Assessment - Advanced Analytics and Reporting **Information** - Proactive Alerts **Security** - Security Auditing **Testing** - Test Automation - Performance and Reliability **Application** - Black Box Testing **Administration** - Reporting - Risk Evaluation - Automated Testing **Automation** - Security Testing - Test Automation **Vulnerability Management** - Threat Hunting - Vulnerability Scanning - Vulnerability Intelligence - Risk-Prioritization **Risk Management** - Risk-Prioritization - Reconnaissance - Threat Intelligence **Monitoring and Integration - Exposure Management Platforms** - Integration and Data Consolidation - Real-time Monitoring and Alerts **Personalization** - Security Validation **Identity** - SSO - Governance **Agentic AI - Vulnerability Scanner** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance **Generative AI** - Generate Attack Scenarios - Generate Threat Detection Rules - Generate Threat Summaries **Agentic AI - Threat Intelligence** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Pentera Alternatives - [Cymulate](https://www.g2.com/products/cymulate/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (175 reviews) - [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (788 reviews) - [Tenable Nessus](https://www.g2.com/products/tenable-nessus/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (287 reviews)