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."It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."
"The Search Engineering feature is good."
"The greatest advantage of Rapid7 Metasploit is that it is the only system that can directly exploit vulnerabilities on the Metasploit platform."
"I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation."
"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."
"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 features of the solution are the scripts, the modules, and the tools that the Rapid7 Metasploit framework has."
"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 ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."
"Packet-capture files can be hard to use due to their size. Wireshark has a tool called tshark that can parse the files with out opening them so that you can take large captures, say 2-10GB, and return only relevant information."
"The drill-down available for packet analysis is great. It gives a network security engineer insight into what is going on at the packet level and enables better troubleshooting."
"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."
"You can use Wireshark to see the traffic packet format, the IP layers, the fields, and the enabled flags."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"The initial setup was a bit "tweaky" for the open-source version."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
"Rapid7 Metasploit could be made easier for new users to learn."
"We'd like them to offer better coverage of malware."
"The open-source version has reporting limitations. You need to develop these capabilities yourself. Built-in reporting is an excellent feature for penetration testing, but it isn't a must-have. The solution could also cover more vulnerabilities. Metasploit has around 10,000 exploits in its library, but more is always better."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"The solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"I would like to see more capabilities, more functions, and more features. More types of attack vectors."
"The only thing that I don't like is sometimes there is an update, and something that I was using is either no longer there or it has changed."
"Wireshark could make the filtering rules easier to apply and offer a drag-and-drop option as opposed to type and text."
"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"DNS could be improved."
"I would like to see Wireshark improve the ease of application of the command. The command is very powerful, but not easy to apply."
"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."
"It needs the ability to follow multiple interfaces for specific traffic from different network zones/virtual networks. It would help to understand how any packet is going through the network."
"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."
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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