Test: Vulnerability assessment (SC Magazine)

Products Tested

• BigFix Security Configuration and Vulnerability Management
• Core Security Technologies Core Impact
• eEye Digital Security Retina Network Security Scanner
• GFI LANguard
• Lumension Scan
• McAfee Vulnerability Manager
• netVigilance SecureScout
• Rapid7 NeXpose Enterprise Edition
• SAINT Integrated Vulnerability Scanner
• Tenable Network Security Nessus Vulnerability Scanner

 

Summary

There is an emerging trend toward vulnerability management and I predict that we will begin to see the vulnerability assessment category – pure-play vulnerability assessment – give way to vulnerability management.