RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner)

From: Cam Beasley, ISO (cam@austin.utexas.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 12:06:55 EDT


Agreed..
Nothing beats the accuracy and speed of Nessus.
If you know how to customize .nasls it is even better.
If you need a commercial version for your
enviroment, consider TenableSecurity's offering:

http://www.tenablesecurity.com/

~cam.

Cam Beasley
Information Security Office
The University of Texas at Austin
cam@austin.utexas.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clarke-cummings@columbus.rr.com
> [mailto:clarke-cummings@columbus.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 09:37
> To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner)
>
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> We recently began evaluating eEye's Retina product for our
> vulnerability assessment tool. We have found the results to
> be very inconsistent, showing us vulnerable to issues that
> have been patched. We've verified the patches manually, with
> MBSA, HFNETCHK, and LanGuard. eEye didn't have a good answer
> as to why the results were so inconsistent. Any guesses?
>
> Also, how is their support response for those that are
> customers? As a trial customer they aren't a very impressive
> organization.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Cheers,
> Clarke
>
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