Rapid7 Metasploit vs Wireshark comparison

"The greatest advantage of Rapid7 Metasploit is that it is the only system that can directly exploit vulnerabilities on the Metasploit platform."

"The reporting on the solution is good."

"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."

"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."

"The Search Engineering feature is good."

"The most valuable feature for us is the support for testing Linux-based web server components."

"Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product."

"All of the features are great."

"I can save the traffic and analysis when I want to. Also, it's especially helpful to follow the stream (TCP, UDP, etc.)."

"I use the filters very often, to determine what type of traffic I am looking for. The use of filter allows traffic to be segmented so that a value can be looked at individually apart from the other traffic."

"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."

"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."

"It helps in analyzing if something looks suspicious, such as a brute force attack or scanning from somewhere."

"What's best about Wireshark is that it doesn't require installation. It supports cards and monitoring permissions and is sufficient for appending and capturing activities. You won't need to install other tools to use Wireshark, so this saves you time. You can capture packets at any time from your laptop through Wireshark."

"I find Wireshark a very useful tool. Its best feature is that it allows me to deeply understand what's going on at the packet level, as well as any adverse signatures that I can analyze. When I need to create an IPS rule, I need to check the traffic deeply to get more insights about the actual traffic, what's the name of certain flags, etc., and I'm able to do all that through Wireshark. The tool is also user-friendly."

"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."

"At the time I was using it, the graphical user interface needed some improvements."

"It is necessary to add some training materials and a tutorial for beginners."

"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."

"If your company's patch is not up to date, but you have other detection or defense solutions such as endpoint detection and response and antivirus software, the product exploit may not work effectively. This is because its exploit database update process is slow and not real-time. For zero-day vulnerabilities or new security threats, relying on Rapid7 Metasploit alone may not be effective."

"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."

"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."

"There are numerous outdated exploits in their database that should be updated."

"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."

"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."

"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."

"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."

"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."

"The only thing that I don't like is sometimes there is an update, and something that I was using is either no longer there or it has changed."

"The speed of the Internet could be improved, especially its performance."

"DNS could be improved."

"The average person would probably find Wireshark hard to use. When I first installed it, I was overwhelmed by all the data it was shooting out. It doesn't make sense until you start doing some research and figure out what everything means. It isn't the most user-friendly tool. It just provides so much information."

"I have used the free version of Rapid7 Metasploit."

"We pay monthly. The pricing is reasonable."

"Rapid7 Metasploit is an open-source solution."

"I use the open-source version of this product. Pricing is not relevant."

"The pricing structure involves a one-time purchase cost of approximately twenty thousand dollars or euros for all customers."

"It is a reasonably priced solution. I would rate it from five out of ten."

"Rapid7 Metasploit is cheaper than Tenable.io Vulnerability Management."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product's pricing a six. So it's fairly priced."

"We are using a freeware version of this solution, so there are no licence costs involved."

"I am using the free version of this solution."

"It is free to download and install. It runs on multiple platforms, so how can you go wrong?"

"Wireshark is an open-source product, so it's free to use."

"It is an open-source solution."

"This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."

"It's a stand-alone tool. If there is a commercial license for it I am unaware of it."

"Wireshark is free of charge, and there's no license involved."