TrustRadius Insights for Metasploit are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Easy to use: Users have found Metasploit to be easy to use, with several reviewers highlighting its intuitive interface and seamless navigation. Some users felt that the tool was user-friendly.
Integration with other tools: The integration of Metasploit with other tools like NMAP has been praised by many reviewers for enhancing its functionality and expanding its capabilities. Several users appreciated the seamless integration of Metasploit with complementary tools.
Automation capabilities: Many users have emphasized the automation capabilities of Metasploit, stating that it significantly reduces the time and effort required for manual tests and exploits. A significant number of reviewers highlighted the time-saving benefits provided by the automation features in Metasploit.
Metasploit is used by my organization to identify system weakness and attempt to exploit them to demonstrate the weakness. It is an easy tool used by the security team to identify, isolate, and demonstrate the weakness and allow for verification of the remediations. As an industry-recognized tool, there is no dispute from different vendors when using the tool.
Pros
Test known exploits
Segregated workspaces for different projects
Updated databases of exploits
Cons
Improve dashboard to allow C levels to better understand the concerns
Exporting the results or integrate with reporting tools
Options to manage the payloads
Likelihood to Recommend
It is easy to use with sufficient documentation on how to use the tools for end users or newbies. Experienced testers will find it easy to customise and configure the test cases. Just wished that I could have taken up a course on using this tool in my study days so that I could had explored more and improved my familiarity with the tool, unlike when working where access and time to explore the other features of the tool is limited.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 1001-5000 employees)
I have used Metasploit in my current and past positions to validate vulnerabilities found in other scanners and to run additional scans and tests not found by a vulnerability scanner. Metasploit is also very good for server hardening by allowing full testing before deployment.
Pros
Vulnerability exploiting
Tool integration such as with NMAP
Very intuitive interface and searching
Cons
More robust menus
Better plugin inter-operation
Likelihood to Recommend
Very useful for exploitation validation. When a vulnerability scanner shows a machine is vulnerable to an exploit manual testing is always a preferred practice to ensure it is not a false positive from the scanner. Manual validation allows the tester to better understand the exploit and how to properly defend from it.
Metasploit is one of the commonly used frameworks inside of our network security department. Our teams are able to use Metasploit's workspace system to work collaboratively on large, comprehensive network penetration tests. Metasploit helps to launch payloads and to gather and store information about systems.
Pros
Workspaces: Metasploit allows for the creation of "workspaces," which allow for shared and collaborative penetration testing.
Information management: Metasploit stores and displays detailed information about devices and networks that would otherwise be difficult to manage.
Community driven: Many developers from all over the world contribute to Metasploit. This helps to keep it functioning well and up-to-date.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Collaborative network penetration testing: Workspaces allow for team members to work together and securely share information during a network penetration test.
Information management: Metasploit stores and displays information in an organized, easy-to-manage format. The framework can store detailed information about thousands of devices, as well as "loot," such as usernames, passwords, credit card information, and other sensitive information captured during a penetration test.