Tenable One Cloud Exposure versus Palo Alto Cortex Cloud

Drop high costs and cumbersome solutions from Palo Alto Cortex Cloud

Choose ease-of-use and comprehensive cloud security with Tenable One Cloud Exposure — built, from the ground up, as one single solution delivering actionable cloud security and featuring best-in-class cloud identity protection and context-rich prioritization.

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Why customers choose Tenable One Cloud Exposure over Palo Alto Cortex Cloud

Seamless and user-friendly

Seamless and user-friendly

Tenable One Cloud Exposure is built from the ground up with fully-integrated CNAPP capabilities, helping security teams gain context into risks and prioritize rapidly. Stakeholders gain immediate insights on day one.

Migration hurdles exist for customers moving from Prisma Cloud to Cortex Cloud.

“...It takes my team forever to do anything [with Cortex Cloud].”

North America Healthcare company

Leader in secure identities

Leader in secure cloud identities

“Who has access?” This is the greatest cloud security risk. Tenable One Cloud Exposure offers dynamic and prioritized analysis of all identities, ensuring your teams can confidently resolve toxic combinations.

“[Tenable One Cloud Exposure] goes beyond permissions visibility to reveal [identity and access management] IAM risk context that informs our busy DevOps team, facilitating their efforts in mitigating risk and minimizing disruption.”

Aidoc

Palo Alto Cortex Cloud lacks:

Identity Permissions Query dashboard

Just-in-time access

Non-human identity visibility

Simplified licensing

Simplified licensing and cost

Tenable One Cloud Exposure enables you to pay for what you need without credits, bundles, or complex schemes. Total cost of ownership (TCO) transparency is always front of mind.

Palo Alto Cortex Cloud licensing and costs are one of the top reasons customers switch to Tenable.

Exposure management

Exposure management from cloud to on-prem to OT

Combine cloud security with the Tenable One Exposure Management platform to proactively and continually manage exposure across the cloud, on-prem, and critical infrastructure.

Palo Alto Cortext Cloud is narrowly focused on reactive cloud security and lacks the proactive approach required for Exposure Management.

Compare Tenable to Palo Alto Networks

Tenable
Palo Alto Networks
Tenable
Wide variety of assets: endpoints, network devices, operational technology (OT), identity systems, cloud workloads, web apps, external assets
Overall asset coverage
CrowdStrike
Offers a wide variety of coverage not focused on proactive security
Tenable
Tenable One provides vulnerability management, operational technology (OT), IT, WAS, ASM and cloud security in a holistic platform
Unified exposure management platform
CrowdStrike
Lacks unified data fabric
Tenable
Clear remediation details:
- Push button IAM remediation
- Push button IaC remediation
Remediation
CrowdStrike
Lacks IAM push-button remediation
Tenable
No-code permission query
Permissions query
CrowdStrike
Code-based query language for each request
Tenable
JIT solution supporting AWS, Azure, GCP and top identity providers like Okta, Entra ID
Just-in-time (JIT) access
CrowdStrike
No JIT support
Tenable
Leader in vulnerability management
Vulnerability management
CrowdStrike
Limited vulnerability management expertise
Tenable
Easy resource-based licensing
Clear and reliable licensing
CrowdStrike
Complex credits, bundles, and add-ons
Q4 2025 Analyst Report

Tenable is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Exposure Assessment Platforms

Q3 2025 Analyst Report

Tenable named a leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Exposure Management 2025 Vendor Assessment

Q3 2025 Analyst Report

Tenable named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Unified Vulnerability Management Solutions, Q3 2025

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Analyst Research
2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for CNAPP
Cyber exposure research
Tenable Cloud and AI Security Risk Report 2026

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