I did an essay last semester giving a brief comparison of various vulnerability scanners. I have to admit, I didnt install and try as many as i could, mainly because the essay didnt call for it, but i should have.
If I did, i would have found Nexpose sooner!!!
In our Ethical Hacking module, we have to scan and exploit a target. In reality, this is a VM with Metasploitable installed on it.
However, because we were attacking it from any given location, the IP address associated to each VM had to be accesible outside our closed Forensic Lab network.
This means Nessus was a no go due to licencing restrictions and coupled with the fact that OpenVas is such a ball ache - i thought id give Nexpose a go.
