We performed a comparison between IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment and Rapid7 Metasploit based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Wiz, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Vulnerability Management."The reporting features are good and there are many built-in reports that can be quickly configured."
"It helped with some of the regulatory requirements. It also helped with some of the security analytics and analysis. It was worthwhile from that perspective."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides a simple English recommendation on actions that you need to take once a vulnerability is discovered."
"It's not possible to do penetration testing without being very proficient in Metasploit."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the scripts, the modules, and the tools that the Rapid7 Metasploit framework has."
"The Search Engineering feature is good."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product."
"The option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"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."
"The interface could be improved by having sub-groups of tests, ultimately making the process of collecting tests faster."
"Building policies is not that easy. There are some things that are turned off by default, for example, displaying values."
"It was not as easy to use. The user-friendliness of it was somewhat lower than what I was expecting. It was also lacking in terms of the ease of the setup. There should be an automatic agent for deployment."
"Rapid7 Metasploit could be made easier for new users to learn."
"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
"The initial setup was a bit "tweaky" for the open-source version."
"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."
"There are numerous outdated exploits in their database that should be updated."
"Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online."
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IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment is ranked 36th in Vulnerability Management with 3 reviews while Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 14th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews. IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment is rated 6.6, while Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment writes "Worthwhile from the regulatory requirements and analytics perspective, but is expensive and not easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 Metasploit writes "Directly exploit vulnerabilities, is stable, and scalable". IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Acunetix and Orca Security, whereas Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Rapid7 InsightVM, Acunetix and Nucleus.
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