[Dave Darling]

Hi all,

I just ran across a hacking tool called Nessus, it is a rival for Metasploit + Armitage and Burp Suite. It looks nice but it turns out you must pay ~$2,500 per year to use it and keep your subscription. It had better be good! Does anyone out there have this and if so how is it?

Thanks

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I have been checking out videos on this on YouTube and so far it seems SLICK, awesome, does everything for you and at the end gives you a report of all the security vulnerabilities it found which you can then patch. Does anyone out there have this?

[TheCyb3rAlpha]

Nessus is just a vulnerability scanner and nothing more. What you can do with Metasploit and BurpSuite is what we call "exploitation". Nessus only finds the vulnerabilities. I have the licensed version and it's pretty handy when I have to perform Vulnerability Assessment on a subnet or a lot of IPs. But ultimately, for Pen testing, I have to use Metasploit and sometimes burp in case of web app.

There's just no comparison between the two of them.