We performed a comparison between Rapid7 Metasploit and Tenable Nessus 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."It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."
"I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation."
"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."
"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 greatest advantage of Rapid7 Metasploit is that it is the only system that can directly exploit vulnerabilities on the Metasploit platform."
"The option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."
"All of the features are great."
"Among the most valuable features are scanning for vulnerabilities and the reporting. The reporting templates are okay. I like that I can see all the hosts with different vulnerabilities."
"Security is the key number because it can start to scan with a few clicks instead of credits, which is a bit complicated. So simplicity is the first advantage. Then the generated reports are well done and easy to present to management. The quality of the scan is quite good in detecting the severity. The solution has simplicity. Also, it has frequent updates so that is also a valuable feature."
"Tenable Nessus is cheap and flexible."
"The most valuable feature of Tenable Nessus is the self-updating engine."
"It is easy to deploy and easy to use. Its reporting is good. From this reporting, you can see the pain point in your network, which makes it easy to fix them. It is easy to understand the reports and export them."
"The automatic scanner and scheduler are pretty cool."
"Nessus is good at finding out what nodes you have in place. It will then provide you a report, by node, of what the vulnerabilities are. It does it quickly and stealthfully."
"The solution is very stable."
"The initial setup was a bit "tweaky" for the open-source version."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
"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."
"At the time I was using it, the graphical user interface needed some improvements."
"I think areas with shortcomings that need improvement are more integration and automation."
"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."
"I would like to see more capabilities, more functions, and more features. More types of attack vectors."
"Advanced Infrastructure should be implemented in the next release for better orchestration."
"It would be a good idea if they have a simulation of attacks or a use case for finding a new vulnerability or dealing with a zero-day attack."
"The price could be reduced."
"The reporting could be improved. The reporting in Rapid7 is much better."
"It would be better if they had application-level support for mobile devices. They don't have anything to scan mobile devices. Tenable Nessus doesn't have a mobile application vulnerability assessment. I also have issues with the false positive rates. The product has limited features."
"Nessus' reporting could be more user-friendly."
"Pricing is one of the most important features, and it is something that they can improve on."
"Tenable Nessus could improve by having more steady updates which will reduce the vulnerabilities."
"The problems I faced with Tenable Nessus were related to its dashboard's customization capabilities and its ability to provide data to third-party sources."
Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 12th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews while Tenable Nessus is ranked 3rd in Vulnerability Management with 75 reviews. Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6, while Tenable Nessus is rated 8.4. 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 Nessus writes "Unlimited assets for one price and quick, agentless results". Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Pentera, Rapid7 InsightVM, Acunetix, Nucleus and Qualys VMDR, whereas Tenable Nessus is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Security Center, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Amazon Inspector. See our Rapid7 Metasploit vs. Tenable Nessus report.
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