Not a question but I’d like to provide some career guidance. If you’re interested in a career in penetration testing, please, please put some time in your training plan for technical writing. So many folks think the job is all hacking, but it’s really about a third project planning with meetings and such, a third hacking and a third writing. Writing rules of engagement, test plans, reports, presentations on results, etc. So business and writing is just as important as the technical stuff. A well rounded applicant will have better luck finding a role.
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I’ve used Tenable Nessus Professional, and Tenable Security Center and both work well in their categories. Nessus Professional is a portable Nessus scanner a security person can take with them to do adhoc scans. Security Center (aka Tenable.sc) is a vulnerability management solution for an enterprise.
Their competition is Rapid7 and Qualys, but I can’t speak to those myself.