Mandiant Advantage (discontinued) vs. Metasploit

Many companies that have an presence can benefit from using Mandiant ASM to identify and manage their internet facing assets, like web servers, email servers and DNS servers. This helps reduce the risk of cyberattacks targeting these assets.However smaller organizations with exposure might not always need the extensive attack surface monitoring provided by Mandiant ASM. For example a small company with one website may not require much monitoring, as a larger corporation.

Incentivized

In security of information it's vital to think like a hacker and it's important to know the tools they use for attacks. So this software gives you the exploits that are already in the wild and to the access of everyone. That's very dangerous so you have to be aware of it.

Incentivized

• The product's simulated attack tests helped identify security gaps in company networks.
• Helped finding drifts in security controls and IT environment.
• Provided actual data to support decision making.

Incentivized

• Scanning our network for new or existing vulnerable systems.
• Automation of manual tests and exploits to allow what used to be days of effort to be squeezed into hours.
• Metasploit has become an integral part in our validation of new systems before their inclusion in our production network.

Incentivized

• Manpower Cost
• More emphasis on automated testing comparison to manual testing
• Need more emphasis on simulation of real world attacks

Incentivized

• If Metasploit could support payloads written in languages other than Ruby, that would be amazing and could help draw in a larger set of contributors.

Incentivized

Being able to get a lot of detailed information about different attacks and different tactics for specific attack types and threat actors is very helpful. Mandiant Support was a bit of a struggle - they need to increase support staffing and capabilities without having to wait for escalations. Overall a good tool, but could be better.

Incentivized

We don't use it.

Incentivized

There are many parameters which are the differentiator between mandiant and Cymulate but some of the key differentitors are listed below: 1) Manpower costs are less and justified as compared to Cymulate 2) Better technologies innovation 3) Good reputation in market 4) Good cummulative man hour experience Also, they are in the market from last 20 years and they have a huge client base.

Incentivized

Acunetix vulnerability scanner, Netsparker, SQLMap

Incentivized

• High ROI
• Great visibility
• Resource Intensive

Incentivized

• We have been able to weed out false positives with a more manual vetting of scanned vulnerabilities.
• Our teams have become more well versed in penetration testing with Metasploit to understand the vulnerabilities potentially present.

Incentivized