Nessus vs. Retina

Pros and cons, Nessus and Retina?
Thanks,
Best,
BB
www.infosecon.org

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:46:50 +0200, BB wrote:

> Pros and cons, Nessus and Retina?
> Thanks,
> Best,
> BB
> www.infosecon.org

Cons:

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http://www.eeye.com/html/products/retina/

From that site:

The vast majority of Retina's audits can be conducted without
administrator rights, making Retina the easiest scanner to use, and the
most cost-effective to deploy.

Might be a good thing or not. For myself, I'm always wary of giving
scanning rights. Call me paranoid; I've been called worse.

Best.

"BB" <Bibi15fun@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d2r5us$a2h$1@sunce.iskon.hr...

> Pros and cons, Nessus and Retina?

I don't trust code that isn't open source. Nessus is open source, Retina
appears to be a proprietary executable, judging by the "free trial."

ynotssor wrote:

>
> "BB" <Bibi15fun@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:d2r5us$a2h$1@sunce.iskon.hr...
>
>> Pros and cons, Nessus and Retina?
>
> I don't trust code that isn't open source. Nessus is open source, Retina
> appears to be a proprietary executable, judging by the "free trial."

I have heard many good things about Retina but have not used it myself.
Seems, from reading posts on the closed InfoSec forums, most top guys use
both!

--
"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?", Robin Williams

"Darko Gavrilovic" <dgavrilovic@REMOVETHIShushmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have heard many good things about Retina but have not used it myself.

What are those "good things"?

BB wrote:

> Pros and cons, Nessus and Retina?
> Thanks,
> Best,
> BB
> www.infosecon.org

I don't know about proprietary stuff. It sound like retina is. I have been
using Nessus for sometime and I have always been pleased with it....

Michael

--

"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems." -
Linus Torvald

"ynotssor" <ynotssor@example.net> wrote in news:3be7psF6fgob5U1
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> "Darko Gavrilovic" <dgavrilovic@REMOVETHIShushmail.com> wrote in
message
> news:IEFwIp.EDu@campus-news-reading.utoronto.ca...
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>> I have heard many good things about Retina but have not used it
myself.
>
> What are those "good things"?
>
>

...."but some observers suggest that Retina may perform scanning better
than its competitors"..

http://infosecuritymag.techtarget.co...rtments_produc
ts2.shtml

dg

Darko Gavrilovic <dgavrilovicAThushmailDOTcom> wrote in
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> "ynotssor" <ynotssor@example.net> wrote in news:3be7psF6fgob5U1
> @individual.net:
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>>
>> "Darko Gavrilovic" <dgavrilovic@REMOVETHIShushmail.com> wrote in
> message
>> news:IEFwIp.EDu@campus-news-reading.utoronto.ca...
>>
>>> I have heard many good things about Retina but have not used it
> myself.
>>
>> What are those "good things"?
>>
>>
>
> ..."but some observers suggest that Retina may perform scanning better
> than its competitors"..
>
> http://infosecuritymag.techtarget.co...partments_prod
uc
> ts2.shtml
>
> dg

http://tinyurl.com/67s7v

"ynotssor" <ynotssor@example.net> wrote in news:3be7psF6fgob5U1
@individual.net:

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> "Darko Gavrilovic" <dgavrilovic@REMOVETHIShushmail.com> wrote in
message
> news:IEFwIp.EDu@campus-news-reading.utoronto.ca...
>
>> I have heard many good things about Retina but have not used it
myself.
>
> What are those "good things"?
>

Actually, while surfing i found a more useful article on the topic you
might be interested if you havent read it yet.

http://infosecuritymag.techtarget.co...ar/cover.shtml

http://tinyurl.com/5w2kk

Much regards,

:-)

dg

"Darko Gavrilovic" <dgavrilovicAThushmailDOTcom> wrote in message
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>>> I have heard many good things about Retina but have not used it
>>> myself.
>>
>> What are those "good things"?
>
> ..."but some observers suggest that Retina may perform scanning better
> than its competitors"..

That's what's called "sales speak."