full-disclosure - Vuln scanner software choices

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Date: Thu Nov 10 21:57:55 2005
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Vuln scanner software choices

--On Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:32:27 -0700 Tblinux <TBLinux@...ad.net> 
wrote:

> I know that most if not all of you use or have used Nessus at some point.
> I've been following the thread. Now that it appears that Nessus is
> seriously ratcheting down support for independent consultants and
> corporate / gov't users without a registered and paid for license what
> scanning software are you considering? Has anyone done a *complete*
> comparison of all of the scanning software out there and made a choice
> based on the findings? If so what was it?
>
There's bound to be a comparison somewhere.  All I can tell you, from 
personal experience, is avoid ISS like the plague it is.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/