Issue TOC Print full article Print this page E-Mail this URL Discuss this article Flame the author     In this article Introduction Wants & Needs Foundstone Enterprise and FoundScan Engine 2.6 Qualys QualysGuard Intranet Scanner Harris Corp. STAT Scanner Professional Edition 5 eEye Digital Security Retina Network Security Scanner Vigilante.com SecureScan NX 2.6.50 SAINT 4.3 nCircle Network Security IP360 Vulnerability Management System 5.3 Other Products Reviewed How We Tested Web Links Report Card

SecureScan NX has a well-designed user interface and several slick features, such as in-scan vulnerability review and the ability to select scan type by risk, service, platform, impact CVE and several others.

We ran into problems, though, during large scans of multiple networks. We locked up the application several times before getting a good clean scan, especially while attempting to identify hosts based on TCP and UDP scans, instead of simply ICMP. Once we worked out the bugs, however, we were able to obtain a good result, and SecureScan NX stood up well against its peers at detecting vulnerabilities; in fact, SecureScan NX detected the largest number--65 percent--of vulnerabilities in our test group.

Although SecureScan NX's reporting is good, we would have liked a remediation explanation in the main body of the report rather than being forced to follow a link to Vigilante's Web site to obtain it.

SecureScan NX 2.6.50, as configured for this test $635 for 10 IPs/year. Vigilante.com, (503) 579-3464. www.vigilante.com