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Re: Trend towards cheaper pen-test suites
From: "Andres Riancho" <andres.riancho () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:01:49 -0300
Andre, On 8/5/08, Andre Gironda <andreg () gmail com> wrote:
Has anyone noticed a recent trend towards cheaper pen-test suites? E.g. SAINTexploit and CORE Impact Essential http://www.saintcorporation.com/products/penetration_testing/saint_exploit.html http://www.corest.com/content/core-impact-essential-overview Has anyone used these or do you plan on using them? I did a little statistics on the CVE's of the now 4 major exploitation suites (Impact, SaintExploit, Canvas, and Metasploit) and it appears that over 60% of the exploits are unique to one suite. This means that there is only 40% overlap. It also appears that Canvas has the most unique exploits, followed by SaintExploit then Metasploit. About 80% of Impact's exploits are featured in the other suites.
I think it's pretty simple... if metasploit keeps getting better(more exploits, more reliable, better support in their mailing list, etc) all commercial tools that perform the same tasks will have to cut down their prices in order to keep their market share.
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