Has anyone run an objective comparison of Nessus and Skipfish

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Published on 2010-03-22T20:51:46Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 21:01 UTC
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We recently set up Nessus, but the annual cost is not cheap. Recently Google published SkipFish which appears to compete in the area of webapps.

As best I can tell, Nessus operates via a large database of known exploits. And, as best as I can tell, Skipfish automatically generates vulnerability tests. Has anyone done a comparison of the effectiveness of these two approaches yet?

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