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."The reporting on the solution is good."
"The option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."
"It's not possible to do penetration testing without being very proficient in Metasploit."
"I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation."
"The Search Engineering feature is good."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"All of the features are great."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"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 filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"What's best about Wireshark is that it doesn't require installation. It supports cards and monitoring permissions and is sufficient for appending and capturing activities. You won't need to install other tools to use Wireshark, so this saves you time. You can capture packets at any time from your laptop through Wireshark."
"Wireshark has a lot of features. It's a powerful tool if you're familiar with it. You can see everything on the network with it."
"The best part about Wireshark, in my opinion, is its ability to analyze packet capture files."
"You can use Wireshark to see the traffic packet format, the IP layers, the fields, and the enabled flags."
"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"The solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."
"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"There are numerous outdated exploits in their database that should be updated."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
"The initial setup was a bit "tweaky" for the open-source version."
"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."
"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."
"This product needs to improve the UI."
"The average person would probably find Wireshark hard to use. When I first installed it, I was overwhelmed by all the data it was shooting out. It doesn't make sense until you start doing some research and figure out what everything means. It isn't the most user-friendly tool. It just provides so much information."
"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."
"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."
"It is difficult to scale this solution."
"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."
"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."
Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 12th 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, SolarWinds NPM, Colasoft Capsa and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.
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