Re: Alternatives to Nessus

[Sat Jagat Singh <flyingdervish () yahoo com>]

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 OpenVAS, I can't really compare them, but it's an 
alternative.

Find it at: http://www-arc.com/sara/


--- On Fri, 3/20/09, jond <x () jond com> wrote:

> From: jond <x () jond com>
> Subject: Alternatives to Nessus
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 7:01 AM
> 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 in advance,
> Jon
>
>
> .
>
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