We performed a comparison between Rapid7 Metasploit and Skybox Security Suite 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 option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."
"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 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 most valuable feature for us is the support for testing Linux-based web server components."
"It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."
"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."
"It can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base."
"We use Network Assurance for network visualisation and troubleshooting."
"The revalidation and policy recertifications are most valuable."
"It's very supportive and very user-friendly."
"The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks."
"The most valuable feature is the compliance, whether it's access compliance or the configuration compliance, to make sure that all of our devices are configured as they're supposed to be, to limit access as much possible, to follow least-access guidelines."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up"
"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."
"I think areas with shortcomings that need improvement are more integration and automation."
"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."
"Advanced Infrastructure should be implemented in the next release for better orchestration."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online."
"There are numerous outdated exploits in their database that should be updated."
"The solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"During implementation, we realised approximately 30 devices were not supported by the Skybox platform."
"The support could be improved."
"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich."
"The solution was quite technical. It would be easier to manage if the solution was more specific about aspects of the solution and provided more advisory around how to use it effectively. It would help users a lot if they were more clear about everything."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It would be better, especially if a customer bought all four modules."
"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."
Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 13th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. 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 Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM and Nucleus, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal. See our Rapid7 Metasploit vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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