Arch Angel <[email protected]> writes: > Honestly Albert, I can't say that I have a legitment "reason" per say. I > have found, in my experience, to get the full benefit of Nessus you really > need Security Center and the other products, but in general that's not a > real reason, just a personal opinion. I have just seen NexPose as a better > product over all, in look, feel, and acurancy. However, again this is just > my opinion I really don't have a reason outside personal preference I guess. > > I'm not opposed to diving deeper into Nessus and learning the advanatges or > capabilities though.
Robert, I would encourage shooting out Nexpose and Security Center side by side with an evaluation that gets sales engineers involved and get a quote early on for what you need. It's a fair point that Nexpose does more for an enterprise than Nessus alone does. Nessus is definitely a vulnerability scanner, but it it not alone an enterprise-centric vulnerability management and reporting system. Security Center fills that role, as you hint. Nexpose and Security Center side by side is the apples to apples comparison. Cost as of 2 years ago was within the same ballpark and was sized per IP's. If you need or want additional scan zones/scanners for a segmented network, one vendor hits you additional for those, another vendor doesn't. Get SE's from both companies involved. Pay attention to memory needed and how fast similar breadth and depth scans come back, if virtualization is important to you, see how each performs in that environment. Test the support channels. Weigh which evil (Java/Flash/HTML5) you want to live with to use the interfaces, decide how important a scriptable API might be to you to mine vuln data. Also consider the OS's of your target environment. One scanner for instance deals with *nix OS's and authenticated scans thereof a lot more elegantly than another. I know which way I went and I've been rather happy. I don't at all regret the time taken to do a full technical shootout of both. Best Regards, -- Todd Haverkos, LPT MsCompE http://haverkos.com/ _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
