Re: nmap vs. nessus

[Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com>]

Nessus uses it's own scanning engine in version 4.x, if what you want is just a list of host then nmap is your best 
choice since nessus will require to bring the server up, but if it is to do vulnerability assessment then use the 
nessus built in one since it will populate the nessus kb databases with the proper data for the vulnerability 
assessment is nessus will be used for it
On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Kim Guldberg wrote:

> Hi Terry
>
> In reality there is no different since Nessus uses nmap initially
> I guess you could say that Nessus will give you open ports and
> vulnerabilities, but you could do almost the same using the Nmap
> Scripting Engine
> Also Nmap gives you more options on the port scanning part then Nessus
> but that can be scripted/configured to some extent also in Nessus
>
> Regards
> kim
>
> Den 16-01-2011 05:26, Terry skrev:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What are the advantages to generating the list of hosts with a nessus
> > vs. an nmap scan?  I appreciate the help for a beginner.
> >
> > Thanks!
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