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."The most valuable feature of Pentera is that you can do continuous vulnerability assessment, which is automated."
"What I like the most about Pentera is its solution-oriented approach."
"Maybe there are some remediation steps on the website, we can mask sensitive information on the website better."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"The product is easy to use."
"It allows us to concentrate solely on identified vulnerabilities without the hassle of additional setup."
"I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation."
"It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."
"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."
"The reporting on the solution is good."
"Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product."
"All of the features are great."
"The Search Engineering feature is good."
"There is room for improvement in virtualization compatibility."
"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."
"Pentera's general dashboards could be improved and made more specific in terms of vulnerabilities that I'm discovering."
"The vulnerability scanner, exploit achievements, and remediation actions are all great."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"We'd like them to offer better coverage of malware."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"At the time I was using it, the graphical user interface needed some improvements."
"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."
"It is necessary to add some training materials and a tutorial for beginners."
"Rapid7 Metasploit could be made easier for new users to learn."
"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."
Pentera is ranked 14th in Vulnerability Management with 5 reviews while Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 12th 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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