Renaud Deraison wrote:
Yes, I said I don't believe the comparisons are fair or done by people that know what they are doing, most of the time, but see below.Oh yeah. I that comparison, every scanner was running on a biprocessor host, with 512mb of ram, except Nessus which was installed on a single processor host with 256mb. Now that's a fair comparison, given the fact that they hilighted the SPEED of the scan, which really really is the important factor here.
Their products comparison, at least in the IDS field are not that bad from what I've seen.[...]Renaud, do you think it would be interesting to contact them and submit Nessus for review there too?
No. I don't know who these guys are and what their testing procedure is.
Yes, I would like serious guys (like NIST which I believe they are) to do comparisons but unfortunately that does not happen.And frankly, the above is a slight deformation of what happens most of the time.
Apart from that, I'm about to finish Nessus 1.4, and I'd prefer that oneAgreed. I'm just saying that, dumb and stupid as these reviews are it's important to be there (and give support for them to be done right) since people take decisions based on them and vendors say "Hey! Look how good X and Y say we are!".
to be evaluated, rather than 1.2.
Just my 2c, of course.
Javi
