Heimdal Application Control vs. Metasploit

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Heimdal Application Control
Score 9.0 out of 10
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A whitelisting and blacklisting tool, Heimdal Application Control is presented as a simple way to gain full control over the files that run on corporate endpoints. The solution allows sysadmins to approve or deny application executions in multiple ways. Filtering can be achieved according to file path, publisher, certificate, vendor name, software name, MD5, and more, to give users complete authority over the application landscape in a network. Heimdal Application…N/A
Metasploit
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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
Pricing
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Heimdal Application ControlMetasploit
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Heimdal Application ControlMetasploit
Considered Both Products
Heimdal Application Control
Chose Heimdal Application Control
I select it because i want easy access and application for my work spaces and it provides exactly what i need
Metasploit
Chose Metasploit
Acunetix vulnerability scanner, Netsparker, SQLMap
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 …
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.
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.
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. …
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Small Businesses
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GitLab
Score 8.7 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Veracode
Veracode
Score 8.7 out of 10
Veracode
Veracode
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Veracode
Veracode
Score 8.7 out of 10
Veracode
Veracode
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Heimdal Application ControlMetasploit
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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User Testimonials
Heimdal Application ControlMetasploit
Likelihood to Recommend
in our work space it has helped us curtail difficulties with fiscal management
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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.
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Pros
  • Fiscal management
  • data registry
  • applications control
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  • 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.
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Cons
  • market accessibility
  • market expansion
  • local reach
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  • 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.
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Support Rating
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We don't use it.
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Alternatives Considered
I select it because i want easy access and application for my work spaces and it provides exactly what i need
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Acunetix vulnerability scanner, Netsparker, SQLMap
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Return on Investment
  • so far so good, it has impacted us positively
  • we are yet to observe any serious difficulties
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  • 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.
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ScreenShots

Heimdal Application Control Screenshots

Screenshot of the Application Control DashboardScreenshot of Application Control - zero trust moduleScreenshot of Application Control - total intercepted applicationsScreenshot of Application Control - elevate privileges