We performed a comparison between Pentera and Rapid7 Metasploit 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."Maybe there are some remediation steps on the website, we can mask sensitive information on the website better."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Pentera is that you can do continuous vulnerability assessment, which is automated."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"What I like the most about Pentera is its solution-oriented approach."
"The Search Engineering feature is good."
"It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."
"The most valuable feature for us is the support for testing Linux-based web server components."
"Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product."
"The reporting on the solution is good."
"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."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"It allows us to concentrate solely on identified vulnerabilities without the hassle of additional setup."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"Maybe scalability. I know that the Pentera right now is high level in order to scan big deals over 500 IPs and not less, and not less. That can be more granular. This will be useful."
"The price could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in virtualization compatibility."
"Pentera's general dashboards could be improved and made more specific in terms of vulnerabilities that I'm discovering."
"The initial setup was a bit "tweaky" for the open-source version."
"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."
"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."
"I think areas with shortcomings that need improvement are more integration and automation."
"Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online."
"The solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."
Pentera is ranked 15th in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 11th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews. Pentera is rated 8.2, while Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Pentera writes "A stable solution that can be used to do continuous and automated vulnerability assessments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 Metasploit writes "Helps find vulnerabilities in a system to determine whether the system needs to be upgraded". Pentera is most compared with Cymulate, Tenable Nessus, Picus Security, Horizon3.ai and Rapid7 InsightVM, whereas Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM, Nucleus and Wireshark. See our Pentera vs. Rapid7 Metasploit report.
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