We performed a comparison between Rapid7 Metasploit and Tenable Vulnerability Management 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."The Search Engineering feature is good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the scripts, the modules, and the tools that the Rapid7 Metasploit framework has."
"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."
"All of the features are great."
"The reporting on the solution is good."
"It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."
"The tool's most useful feature for penetration testing is its automation capabilities. With the professional edition, you can upload the results from Nessus in the Rapid7 Metasploit solution portal."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's a recommended tool for penetration testers because it's effective for that purpose."
"The vulnerability management itself is the most valuable feature as well as references to the mitigation techniques."
"The interface is fine."
"The solution is quite friendly."
"It is a very, very user-friendly tool...The setup is easy"
"The solution's most valuable feature is providing a single pane of visibility on all the infrastructure and its status."
"The solution provides seamlessness, a perfect UI, and identity management for office operations. We are most vulnerable to users. Therefore, it is crucial to implement the right solution to ensure proper user access and resource management."
"At the time I was using it, the graphical user interface needed some improvements."
"The solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"There are numerous outdated exploits in their database that should be updated."
"Advanced Infrastructure should be implemented in the next release for better orchestration."
"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."
"Rapid7 Metasploit could be made easier for new users to learn."
"The stability has room for improvement."
"The one drawback that we have found is the reports."
"The shortcoming of the solution that needs improvement is related to its capability to do vulnerability assessments on applications."
"Another area of improvement is customer service and support. Tenable needs to include support in the pricing/license. Currently, they push clients to get support from partners or channel distributors, who often charge a lot."
"It can have more integration."
"More flexibility is required compared to other solutions."
"It would be helpful if Tenable could be more clear with regard to everything the solution can and cannot do with the particular license that you have."
"They've been able to think about everything in terms of where the world is going and the type of assets that you've got. They've everything sorted out in that aspect, but you have to pay for most of the other components that they've got to give you complete visibility across your tech surface. If it already had those capabilities in-built, without having to add them on to take advantage of them, it would be a very compelling value proposition."
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Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 13th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews while Tenable Vulnerability Management is ranked 2nd in Vulnerability Management with 39 reviews. Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6, while Tenable Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2. 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 Vulnerability Management writes "Discovers vulnerabilities and integrates well with other solutions". Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM and Vectra AI, whereas Tenable Vulnerability Management is most compared with Tenable Security Center, Tenable Nessus, Qualys VMDR, Amazon Inspector and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management. See our Rapid7 Metasploit vs. Tenable Vulnerability Management report.
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