We performed a comparison between Rapid7 Metasploit and Tenable Security Center 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 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."
"The Search Engineering feature is good."
"The option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."
"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."
"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 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."
"It's not possible to do penetration testing without being very proficient in Metasploit."
"It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."
"We use Tenable to scan all of our environments and plugins for vulnerabilities. Tenable helps us discover network vulnerabilities to threats and piracy."
"The most valuable features of Tenable SC are scanning, reporting, dashboards, and automation."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the vulnerability assessment."
"The most valuable feature of the product is the Assurance Report Card, which gives us an overview of the security poster in just a simple glance."
"The tool provides us insight into the happens of the network and its hosts. It provides me with a list of hosts."
"The tool gives us fewer false positives. Compared to its competitors, the solution’s reports are more accurate."
"One of the most valuable features is their distributed scan model for allotting engines to work together as a pool and handle multiple scans at once, across multiple environments. Automatic scanning distribution is a distinguishing feature of their toolset."
"Feature-wise, Tenable Security Center is a very fast tool with many dashboards and reports, and it covers all our systems."
"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."
"Rapid7 Metasploit could be made easier for new users to learn."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"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."
"We'd like them to offer better coverage of malware."
"Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online."
"I think areas with shortcomings that need improvement are more integration and automation."
"At the time I was using it, the graphical user interface needed some improvements."
"The product should provide risk-based vulnerability management."
"The web application scanning area can be improved."
"The tool's initial configuration is not so easy."
"In terms of configuration, there is some level of flexibility that we are not able to achieve."
"Tenable.sc's user interface could be improved."
"The pricing is reasonable, but this could be brought down more aggressively, such as we see with Rapid7, Tenable SC's main competitor."
"Tenable SC could be improved with additional connectivity to external company postures and the capability of managing and sustaining agents in the systems directly without additional platforms in the middle."
"Tenable SC could improve by making the creation of the initial reports easier that correspond to our network."
Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 12th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews while Tenable Security Center is ranked 1st in Vulnerability Management with 48 reviews. Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6, while Tenable Security Center 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 Security Center writes "A security solution for vulnerability assessment with automated scans". Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Rapid7 InsightVM, Acunetix and Nucleus, whereas Tenable Security Center is most compared with Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM and Horizon3.ai. See our Rapid7 Metasploit vs. Tenable Security Center report.
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