Cobalt Strike vs. Metasploit

Cobalt Strike

Cobalt Strike

0 Reviews and Ratings

Metasploit

Metasploit

19 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cobalt Strike	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Cobalt Strike is an adversary simulation for penetration testing, developed by Strategic Cyber LLC and acquired by HelpSystems in 2020. Cobalt Strike is now a HelpSystems solution.	N/A
Metasploit	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Metasploit is open source network security software described by Rapid7 as the world’s most used penetration testing framework, designed to help security teams do more than just verify vulnerabilities, manage security assessments, and improve security awareness.	N/A

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Cobalt Strike

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Cobalt Strike	Metasploit
Free Trial
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Community Pulse
	Cobalt Strike	Metasploit
Considered Both Products	Cobalt Strike No answer on this topic	Metasploit Verified User Anonymous Chose Metasploit Acunetix vulnerability scanner, Netsparker, SQLMap Incentivized Helpful? Omar Israel Sánchez Monroy Auditor de Seguridad de la Información Chose Metasploit You can configure and develop your own versions of exploits that are suitable for your business. The free version is very useful and the Rapid7 website has a lot of info to help you understand the exploits. Nessus just lets you identify the vulnerabilities but Metasploit lets … Incentivized Helpful? Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP Senior Network Security Engineer Chose Metasploit Metasploit is an all around good suite of tools to test and validate potential vulnerabilites. Other tools have bits and pecies such as NMAP, Nessus, Burp Suite, etc. but Metasploit can function in the same way but more. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Metasploit Metasploit is the most well-known tool in the average pen tester's toolkit. It's hard to compare to its neighbor's due to its size and following. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Metasploit They are equal in my mind. It really just depends on a user's preference. Cobalt Strike is essential a graphical user interface (GUI) built on top of Metasploit, so it will feel very familiar to Metasploit users. The Pentestly Framework is also quite similar to Metasploit. … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Cobalt Strike	Metasploit
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cobalt Strike	Metasploit
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	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 Omar Israel Sánchez Monroy Auditor de Seguridad de la Información Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	We don't use it. Incentivized Omar Israel Sánchez Monroy Auditor de Seguridad de la Información Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	Acunetix vulnerability scanner, Netsparker, SQLMap Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	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 Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP Senior Network Security Engineer Read full review
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