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Alternatives to Nessus

Alternatives to Nessus

Posted by jond on Mar 20

Has anyone found any good alternatives to Nessus?
I’ve played around with OpenVAS with their backtrack build, but either
it’s not pulling all the plugins, or it’s just not as accurate as
Nessus.

Anyone have different experiences with OpenVAS, or know of anything
else I might look at?

Thanks…

URL: http://seclists.org/pen-test/2009/Mar/0104.html

9 Comments

  1. "Penetration Testing (pen-test) Mailing List" says:

    Re: Alternatives to Nessus

    Posted by A K on Mar 21

    If money is not an issue (e.g. you are not limited to free solutions),
    you can use a scanning provider, such as Qualys

    jond wrote:
    > Has anyone found any good alternatives to Nessus?
    > I’ve played around with OpenVAS with their backtrack build, but either
    > it’s not pulling all the…

    URL: http://seclists.org/pen-test/2009/Mar/0106.html

  2. "Penetration Testing (pen-test) Mailing List" says:

    Re: Alternatives to Nessus

    Posted by Wagner on Mar 21

    You could look at HISSEC, i have heard very good about it

    On 3/20/09, jond <x_at_jond.com> wrote:
    > Has anyone found any good alternatives to Nessus?
    > I’ve played around with OpenVAS with their backtrack build, but either
    > it’s not pulling all the plugins, or it’s just…

    URL: http://seclists.org/pen-test/2009/Mar/0109.html

  3. "Penetration Testing (pen-test) Mailing List" says:

    Re: Alternatives to Nessus

    Posted by Taras P. Ivashchenko on Mar 22

    What problems in using Nessus?

    On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 10:01 -0400, jond wrote:
    > Has anyone found any good alternatives to Nessus?
    > I’ve played around with OpenVAS with their backtrack build, but either
    > it’s not pulling all the plugins, or it’s just not as accurate as
    > Nessus….

    URL: http://seclists.org/pen-test/2009/Mar/0108.html

  4. "Penetration Testing (pen-test) Mailing List" says:

    Re: Alternatives to Nessus

    Posted by Neo on Mar 22

    Cisco Secure Scanner (NetSonar). but i don’t know if its still devloped.
    Retina and LANGuard security scanner are also available.

    HTH

    Neo

    jond schrieb:
    > Has anyone found any good alternatives to Nessus?
    > I’ve played around with OpenVAS with their backtrack build, but either
    >…

    URL: http://seclists.org/pen-test/2009/Mar/0107.html

  5. "Penetration Testing (pen-test) Mailing List" says:

    Re: Alternatives to Nessus

    Posted by Michael Wiegand on Mar 23

    * jond [21. Mar 2009]:
    > Has anyone found any good alternatives to Nessus?
    > I’ve played around with OpenVAS with their backtrack build, but either
    > it’s not pulling all the plugins, or it’s just not as accurate as
    > Nessus.

    Being one of the OpenVAS developers I might be a…

    URL: http://seclists.org/pen-test/2009/Mar/0111.html

  6. "Penetration Testing (pen-test) Mailing List" says:

    Re: [pen-test] Alternatives to Nessus

    Posted by Micha Borrmann on Mar 24

    jond schrieb:
    > Has anyone found any good alternatives to Nessus?

    try MaxPatrol

    HTH,

    Micha Borrmann

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  7. "Penetration Testing (pen-test) Mailing List" says:

    Re: Alternatives to Nessus

    Posted by SD List on Mar 24

    Hi there,

    Since we’ve started running Security-Database Tools Watch, we’ve tested
    tons of tools, software, utilities and even wrote some reviews for
    products.

    What’s the best alternative for nessus ?? is a complex question !! Since,
    you cannot rely on "one" software to perform a…

    URL: http://seclists.org/pen-test/2009/Mar/0123.html

  8. "Penetration Testing (pen-test) Mailing List" says:

    Re: Alternatives to Nessus

    Posted by Sat Jagat Singh on Mar 24

    I haven’t seen anyone mention SARA for this yet. It’s open source, updated on a reasonable schedule, seems to find MOST of the same vulnerabilities that Nessus does and has a nice report format. I find it a little more complicated to configure and use, but not bad. Not to say it’s better than…

    URL: http://seclists.org/pen-test/2009/Mar/0122.html

  9. "Penetration Testing (pen-test) Mailing List" says:

    Re: Alternatives to Nessus

    Posted by Morning Wood on Mar 27

    XScan by XFocus uses the NASL library and Nessus plugins

    http://www.xfocus.org/programs/200507/18.html

    ( yay Chineese! )

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