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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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…

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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…

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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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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…

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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
>…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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