RE: Alternatives to Nessus

["Shenk, Jerry A" <jshenk () decommunications com>]

Have you ever used NetSonar - oh my goodness...my personal
recommendation...don't even waste time looking for it!

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Cisco Secure Scanner (NetSonar). but i don't know if its still devloped.
Retina and LANGuard security scanner are also available.

HTH

Neo

jond schrieb:
> Has anyone found any good alternatives to Nessus?
> I've played around with OpenVAS with their backtrack build, but either
> it's not pulling all the plugins, or it's just not as accurate as
> Nessus.
>
> Anyone have different experiences with OpenVAS, or know of anything
> else I might look at?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jon
>
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