We performed a comparison between Rapid7 Metasploit and Tenable Nessus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product."
"The solution is open source and has many small targetted penetration tests that have been written by many people that are useful. You can choose different subjects for the test, such as Oracle databases or Apache servers."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the scripts, the modules, and the tools that the Rapid7 Metasploit framework has."
"I don't have any other tools like it, and I always use it when I'm doing a pen test. Metasploit is a great solution for penetration testing,"
"The most valuable feature for us is the support for testing Linux-based web server components."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"All of the features are great."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the dashboard. They are convenient to use."
"The product's most valuable features are vulnerability and asset management. It can define the rules and validate the configuration."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It is easy to deploy and easy to use. Its reporting is good. From this reporting, you can see the pain point in your network, which makes it easy to fix them. It is easy to understand the reports and export them."
"The automatic scanner and scheduler are pretty cool."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is website scanning."
"With the Tenable Nessus enterprise edition, you have unlimited licenses to scan the device."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that you receive the entire report, which details the breakdown, especially in terms of critical, high, low, and mediums."
"Advanced Infrastructure should be implemented in the next release for better orchestration."
"Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online."
"Rapid7 Metasploit could be made easier for new users to learn."
"I think areas with shortcomings that need improvement are more integration and automation."
"If your company's patch is not up to date, but you have other detection or defense solutions such as endpoint detection and response and antivirus software, the product exploit may not work effectively. This is because its exploit database update process is slow and not real-time. For zero-day vulnerabilities or new security threats, relying on Rapid7 Metasploit alone may not be effective."
"It is necessary to add some training materials and a tutorial for beginners."
"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."
"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."
"Technically, it is an excellent and the best solution available in Libya. My only concern is related to its pricing. They are an emerging company in Libya, and they need to put in some effort to provide us with very good prices so that customers can go with the best solution. Chinese companies are getting into the market here, and they're providing very cheap solutions."
"Pricing is one of the most important features, and it is something that they can improve on."
"The reports are okay, but the interface is a bit difficult to navigate in some cases."
"I think the reporting templates could be improved with Tenable Nessus."
"I have found it is sometimes difficult to control the Zoom meeting sessions. For example, it is difficult to know who is talking and when trying to mute everyone but the speaker you end up muting everyone. When using multiple screens it is laborious to find the control buttons, such as to start a session. Additionally, when a recording is done I have found it difficult to find them, there should be an easier way to retrieve them."
"Tenable Nessus could improve reporting and information sharing. It would be helpful if we could share the reports and have a little bit better flexibility in the reporting of the data."
"Scans aren't done properly and some devices aren't pinged."
"Lacks some penetration testing-related services."
Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 12th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Rapid7 Metasploit writes "Helps find vulnerabilities in a system to determine whether the system needs to be upgraded". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Pentera, Rapid7 InsightVM, Acunetix, Nucleus and Qualys VMDR, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Amazon Inspector. See our Rapid7 Metasploit vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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