We performed a comparison between Rapid7 Metasploit and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Wiz, SentinelOne and others in Vulnerability Management."Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product."
"The greatest advantage of Rapid7 Metasploit is that it is the only system that can directly exploit vulnerabilities on the Metasploit platform."
"It allows us to concentrate solely on identified vulnerabilities without the hassle of additional setup."
"The most valuable feature for us is the support for testing Linux-based web server components."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"All of the features are great."
"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."
"The option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."
"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."
"It has good basic features."
"I use the filters very often, to determine what type of traffic I am looking for. The use of filter allows traffic to be segmented so that a value can be looked at individually apart from the other traffic."
"The solution is easy to install and use."
"The best part about Wireshark, in my opinion, is its ability to analyze packet capture files."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."
"If you're dealing with troubleshooting network, voice issues, or network operations, having a tool like Wireshark to dive into packet details is important. The initial setup is straightforward. Anyone starting out or looking to deploy it on your personal PC or machine can do it easily."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"We'd like them to offer better coverage of malware."
"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
"I think areas with shortcomings that need improvement are more integration and automation."
"I would like to see more capabilities, more functions, and more features. More types of attack vectors."
"There are numerous outdated exploits in their database that should be updated."
"Advanced Infrastructure should be implemented in the next release for better orchestration."
"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."
"The decryption of encrypted packets could be better."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
"DNS could be improved."
"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"You need some basic knowledge to work with Wireshark. Maybe it could be more user-friendly just for new users. Just for the new generation."
"It is difficult to scale this solution."
Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 13th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. 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 Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM and Qualys VMDR, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Colasoft Capsa, SolarWinds NPM and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.
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